Quotes About Opportunity

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher, because they're still out there… haunting you. The what-ifs.

From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.

Life just isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.

One door was shut and a gate was wide open for me. I step in the gate and keep on walking and never will I want to go back to that door.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

It's never too late to start a happy ending

It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.

Well, because if we don't have enough capacity, we're cheating ourselves out of potential throughput. And if we have more than enough capacity, we're wasting money. We're missing an opportunity to reduce operational expense.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

What does the world care about either you or me? Nothing. But we care for each other, and I grasp at every opportunity of telling it. A letter, they may say, would do as well for that purpose as a dedication. I say no; for a letter is a sort of corruptible substance, and these volumes may be IMMORTAL. Beside, it is perhaps my pride to write a dedication and your pride to receive one. I desire the world then to let it pass; for, to tell them a truth—you have paid me for it before-hand.

No, Child! 'Tis your Business to make Hay while the Sun shines — for when Youth and Beauty are no more — Farewell Hope

We cannot choose where we come from, but we can choose where we are going, and we can choose the routes we're willing to take to try to get there.

There were times to rise to the bait, and times not to.

It was a delicious rumor. Will resolved to spread it at every opportunity.

Because a girl would never have made it here without knowing somebody, right?

Space was right there, inches beyond my fingertips.

I wondered if the Goodlaw had been waiting for us, or if this was a chance encounter. I guessed this was my opportunity to find out.

The opportunity to change my mind was legally mandated by the Synarche, of course. I couldn't cannot entirely to the clade until I turned twenty-five standard, and I had to do it, legally, while I wasn't under the influence of any turning or rightminding controlled by the clade.

By the way, should you have the opportunity to be kidnapped by radicals, you'd rather fall in with the Right Hand Path than with Maenads, if you get the choice.

Well, Haimey Dz, you always wanted to make a legend for yourself. Here's your chance at becoming a really spectacular example of a cautionary tale!

His knock apparently startled the scullery maid, but a good suit and a sober-headed cane opened many a door, including this one. And if she seemed inclined to shut it in his face again quite promptly, a silver shilling slipped into her hand with his visiting card corrected the matter.