Second Chance famous quotes
03-23-2025
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
-- Al Jarreau -
It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that ***** habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.
-- Al Jourgensen -
We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
-- Al Sharpton -
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
-- Alan Bennett -
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
-- Alfred Nobel -
I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.
-- Allen Iverson -
We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.
-- Andrew Greeley -
I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we've got to capitalize.
-- Andy Kennedy -
After what I have seen, I realize that absolutely anything is possible, and that we did not come here to suffer. Life is supposed to be great, and we are very, very loved. The way I look at life has changed dramatically, and I am so glad to have been given a second chance to experience “heaven on earthâ€.
-- Anita Moorjani -
When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
-- Annette Funicello -
I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.
-- Annette Funicello -
America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
-- Anthony Walton -
Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.
-- Artur Davis -
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
-- Ayrton Senna -
I don't want anyone to ever put himself or herself in a box of, "I lost my second chance!" Because life brings you ebbs and flows, and if you miss out on this second chance, guess what, you're going to get another one if you decide that you're ready to have one.
-- Bob Harper -
I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.
-- Cam Newton -
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
-- Carl Jung -
There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.
-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.
-- Charles Rangel -
Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.
-- Chet Williamson -
We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.
-- Christine Quinn -
Remember, second chances don't expire until midnight.
-- Claire Morgan -
As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for everything. I would not be given a second chance. In the hours when I woke, I have to tell you that this struck me almost with relief.
-- Colm Toibin -
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
-- Cotton Mather -
In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
-- Cynthia Ozick -
There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.
-- Daphne du Maurier -
I've always been humble and this even humbled me even more to definitely get a second chance at my career. There are still chapters I'm writing in this legacy.
-- Darrelle Revis -
Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
-- Darren Aronofsky -
I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I could count the hours I have spent staring out at it! And yet those hours never feel lost. I cannot imagine how else I could refill them were I given a second chance.
-- David Ebershoff -
Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.
-- Doris McCarthy -
You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.
-- Duane G. Carey -
For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.
-- Duncan Sheik -
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
-- Ed Bradley -
Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.
-- Ed Rendell -
We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.
-- Ed Rendell -
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
-- Edward Abbey -
I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.
-- El DeBarge -
To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
-- Elizabeth Gaskell -
For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.
-- Emma McLaughlin -
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
-- Ernst Zundel -
You don't get second chances in the real world.
-- Gail Simmons -
Sometimes you don’t get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. Always.
-- Gavin MacLeod -
Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.
-- George R. Roberts -
As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.
-- George Takei -
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.
-- George W. Bush -
I believe in giving people a second chance.
-- George Zimmer -
I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.
-- Glenn Hoddle -
You look the conflict with your ego & i look the same conflict with thought.Your ego never gives me a second chance..we are left to suffer!
-- Gopichand Lagadapati -
If it weren't for second chances, we'd all be alone.
-- Gregory Alan Isakov -
There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
-- H. Rap Brown -
You want this so badly—this second chance, this chance at real redemption—that you can’t see the truth.
-- Harlan Coben -
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
-- Harrison Ford -
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson -
Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.
-- Hunter Hayes -
You have risen with all power in Your hands. You have given me a second chance. Hallelujah, hallelujah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m not going back, I’m moving ahead. Here to declare to You my past is over in You. All things are made new, surrendered my life to Christ. I’m moving, moving forward.
-- Israel Houghton -
The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
-- Israel Zangwill -
I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.
-- J. R. Martinez -
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason -
See, that's the thing about second chances. It's two people that are there for each other and support each other and care about each other no matter how much they want to deny it. It's about one person doing everything they can to make sure the other doesn't fall and vice-versa. Second chances are about holding on to that other persons hand no matter how hard they beg to let go.
-- Jacqueline Kelly -
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
-- James Gould Cozzens -
Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet.
-- James Sanderson -
I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.
-- Jamie Ford -
When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.
-- Jan de Bont -
It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.
-- Jandy Nelson -
After all, how often do we get a second chance?
-- Jay Asher -
The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
-- Jay-Z -
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
-- Jean-Jacques Annaud -
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.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
-- Jeff Foxworthy -
We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.
-- Jen Hatmaker -
I've seen a lot of real out-of-line attitudes since I have been in the WWF and those people are still there or are getting a second or third chance or something like that.
-- Jerry Lawler -
Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence , but there are those who don’t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.
-- Jessica Sorensen -
When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforted knowing that my father would be able to give others a second chance at life. That is why I encourage everyone to sign up to be a donor.
-- John Perez -
A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.
-- John Wayne -
With writing, we have second chances.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.
-- Jorge Garcia -
Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.
-- Julian Baggini -
To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.
-- Karen White -
... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.
-- Kate Morton -
There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
-- Kate Smith -
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-- Khalil Gibran -
I know, I know. It's hard to explain. All I can say is that I've been given a second chance. Maxon matters to me, and I'm going to fight for him.":)
-- Kiera Cass -
Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.
-- Kurt von Schleicher -
If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.
-- Lance Armstrong -
Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
-- Lara Spencer -
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
-- Leigh Hunt -
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
-- Lillian Smith -
It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.
-- Lisi Harrison -
Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer each other is a second chance.
-- Lloyd D. Newell -
You've never gone too far that God can't redeem you, restore you, forgive you, and give you a second chance.
-- Lysa TerKeurst -
When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
-- Majel Barrett -
I'm a sinner. I don't always love God as strongly as I could or as directly as I should. Ash Wednesday reminds me that it is only through God that I have life; He gave it to me. God forgives. He loves. And He gives this sinner a second chance. Put simply: my God kicks ash.
-- Mark Hart -
I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.
-- Marlee Matlin -
The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.
-- Max Lucado -
I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.
-- Melody Carlson -
I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.
-- Michael Bolton -
I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself.
-- Michael Eric Dyson -
Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'
-- Michael N. Castle
