You get one chance to
You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn’t going to give those up.
– Paul Keating
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- And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance. – Federica Montseny
- They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession. – Jose Rizal
- Give life a chance. – Debasish Mridha
- I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic. – Albert Pujols
- My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town. – Camille Claudel
- What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life. – Henry Giroux
- I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Out first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build
- Trouble is part of your life if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. – Dinah Shore
- Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. – Dinah Shore