Chance Quote by Alec Wilkinson

“Day after day in the season of disaster, it can be hard to recognize a chance in fortune when it comes.”

— Gregory Maguire

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar…

— Darell Hammond

Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care.…

— Dayananda Saraswati

The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It enables us to remain undisturbed, even when the situation is really…

— Dalai Lama

Taking ownership of your happiness has two aspects: Accepting that being happy is up to you and that you have the ability and power…

— Marci Shimoff

You can't take anything online personally, especially if it is negative. You can have 10 positive comments, but the one negative comment will get…

— Bethany Mota

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and…

— John Green

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do…

— Bill Ayers

Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one…

— Thomas Merton

Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing.

— William Arthur Ward

There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their position or…

— Tori Amos

In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to…

— Akira Mori

You're a musician and you live and die by people responding to your music. It's a business just like anything else and if people…

— Marc Martel

Meaning coming from feeling, feeling coming from within, you absorb a massive amount of information, it goes through your whole body, a little bit…

— Bill Henson

Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or…

— Sheila Kamerman