Give Me A Chance Quotes

• I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Creating Things, Years

  "Steve Jobs obituary" by Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Golf, Play, Giving

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• If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

  Pete Rose

  Second Chance, Giving, Needs

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• "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Mary Pickford

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Encouragement

  "Why Not Try God?". "St. Petersburg Times" Newspaper, sect. 2, (p. 3), January 25, 1936.

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• Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.165, Penguin

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• Give me a chance to create a fever and I will cure any disease.

  Parmenides

  Giving, Fever, Disease

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• You know, there’s something when you just know you fit together. And I fit with you. I don’t care what you are, human or anything else. It’s like a need, Maddy. So please.” He stopped and looked at her desperately. Nakedly. “Give me a chance, Maddy.

  Scott Speer

  Giving, Together, Needs

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• I love a character that gives me a chance to grow and do something different.

  Halle Berry

  Character, Giving, Different

  "Halle Berry Is the Perfect Stranger". "MovieWeb" Interview, movieweb.com. April 9, 2007.

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• Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Mother, Fear

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.320, Courier Corporation

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• I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Money, America

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• Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

  James Brown

  Giving, Dancing, Needs

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• Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

  Isak Dinesen

  Heart, Artist, Long

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• When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

  Philip Yancey

  Book, Writing, People

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• On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after which I do the last draft, which gives me a chance to incorporate anything the actors have come up with during the rehearsal period, so I'm very inclusive as a writer.

  John Cleese

  Writing, Giving, Actors

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2009.

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• I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.' 'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.

  Mary Balogh

  Eye, Flames, Fire

  Mary Balogh (2004). “Slightly Dangerous”, p.183, Delacorte Press

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• My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Christian, Jesus

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• 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

  Romantic Love, Second Chance, Given

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• You were the one who changed us when you left me in the tree house; and you keep thinking that if you push hard enough, you can make everything go back to before that moment. It doesn't work that way. Give me a chance to choose you.

  Kiera Cass

  Thinking, Giving, House

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• He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don't think it was an accident he let me find out how the Mirror worked. It's almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I could.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Thinking, Mirrors

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• I saw a spider, I didn't scream 'Cause I can belch the alphabet Just double dog dare me And I chose guitar over ballet
  And I tape these suckers down 'Cause they just get in my way The way you look at me Is kind of like a little sister
  You high five your goodbyes And it leaves me nothing but blisters So I don't want to be one of the boys.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Goodbye, Dog

  "Song: "One of the Boys"". June 17, 2008.

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• These things...they are who you are. They brought you here. To this day. You didn't give me a chance to understand that ever the unattractive parts of you, the messy parts, were something I could accept.

  Laura Dave

  Giving, Unattractive, Accepting

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• Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance

  Francine Rivers

  Light, Offering, Color

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• Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON!

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Knives, Giving

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I’d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Thinking, Giving, Mind

  Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

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• ... with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider." "What does sedentary mean?" asked Wilbur. "Means I sit still a good part of the time and don't go wandering all over creation. I know a good thing when I see it, and my web is a good thing. I stay put and wait for what comes. Gives me a chance to think.

  E. B. White

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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