Quotes About Blown Chances

#1. Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.

George Eliot

#2. How can I light a candle? Before I light this candle, this darkness needs to be thrown out.

Osho

#3. I don't want the universe broken up just yet," drawled the Marquis. "I want to do a lot of beastly things before I die. I thought of one yesterday in bed.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

Alex Flinn

#5. I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

Ursula Andress

#6. Our problem is that we choose to deny love. In fact, we only have one problem: that our mind chooses fear over love.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#7. I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's had his chance, he has had many chances over the last 12 years and he has blown every one of those chances.

Colin Powell

#8. The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.

Frank O'Hara

#9. All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind ...

George E.P. Box

#10. Promise me you'll never leave me.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#11. For me, it's not just about blessing my generation, I've done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless.

Onyi Anyado