Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shelby Foote

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.

Shannen Doherty

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

Tamar Braxton

A lot of people dont get second chances.

Tia Mowry

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

Katy Perry

I have a second chance on life.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.

Richard Ernst

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

Umberto Guidoni

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

Trevor Brooking

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

Tracey Gold

You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.

Van Jones

The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling things to give them a second life. We should also be gathering up people and giving them a second chance.

Vladimir Putin

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

Jeanette Winterson

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

Jay Asher

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

Hillary Clinton

We need to have more second chance programs. I'm glad that we're ending private prisons in the federal system; I want to see them ended in the state system.

George W. Bush

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

H. Rap Brown

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

Jean de la Bruyere

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Hunter Hayes

Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

Jorge Garcia

People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

Jo Brand

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

Hermann Hesse

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

Oksana Baiul

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

Scott Aukerman

I find I've always been judgmental about comedy (laughs) and it's hard to turn that off, really. But what constant exposure to live comedy does is it makes you give people a second chance.

Michael Vick

You only get one shot at a second chance.

Kate Smith

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

Kate Morton

... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

Paul Theroux

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Leigh Hunt

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

Jodi Picoult

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

Patricia Velasquez

It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my way, the universe gave me a second chance.

Richard Branson

When people screw up, give them a second chance.

Rush Limbaugh

This is so classic. Government comes along under the guise of fairness, fixes something, gonna make it fair, gonna make it equal, gonna make it affordable, maybe even make it free. What they end up doing is blowing it all to hell, screwing it up worse than it's ever been screwed up, then their voters bellyache and complain about it. And the same Democrats come back and demand that something be done, because their voters need a second chance.