Quotes About Opportunity

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

I want to do whatever people allow me to do with great people and have a great time doing it.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you're making excuses.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

And then after a while he got me a job at the video store next door. I used to lock up the store and go next door and hang out all the time and watch movies and stuff.

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

I think it's time to rebuild America.

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.

All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.