Taking Chances Facebook Quotes & Sayings

Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane. — Binyavanga Wainaina

You have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book. — Haruki Murakami

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity itself isn't going to do anything for you ... it is an entirely different game to buy a lump of something and hope that somebody else pays you more for that lump two years from now than it is to buy something that you expect to produce income for you over time. — Warren Buffett

Humanity faces vast environmental challenges in the coming years; yet to suggest that they are unconquerable would be to place too little faith in the ability of people, both as individuals and as groups, to understand the world and respond to it effectively. Great change is coming; I hope and believe that people can take the initiative to enact change on a global scale, rather than becoming the victims of global change. — Bill Tomlinson

Hey, Adam," I said.
I thought you'd want to know that Warren and Darryl made it out of the vampire den alive."
I sucked in my breath. "You didn't actually agree to their meeting on Marsilia's grounds?"
He laughed. "No, it just sounded better than saying they made it out of Denny's alive. It might not be romantic, but it's open all night and set in the middle of a brightly lit parking lot with no dark places for skulking parties to ambush from. — Patricia Briggs

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm? — Vince Neil

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. — William Faulkner

And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors? — Siddhartha Mukherjee

When you ask people about guys they didn't like because they were aggressive, there's me, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors; not too many names would come up. — Pete Rose

She didn't believe it, and Jack somehow knew it. Every guy she'd ever been with had treated her the same as Ben. It was how men were. But Jack was different. — Jasinda Wilder

If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should. — Charles Dickens

I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I heard about the Dalai Lama, you know and I thought to myself, why not me? — Zach Braff