Quotes About Opportunity

So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?" "That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future. . .you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell me. . .what choice do you want to make now?

People with brain and body differences have the lowest graduation rates, highest incarceration rates, and highest unemployment out of any minority group.

An Ivy League teacher told me, "I've found that if students have an opportunity to jump on someone, they usually take it.

This is what constitutes an "heroic age": that a people subsisting stably on pasture and tillage, with a simple system of customary law and an already established social hierarchy, is provided with an opportunity to prey on a rich, highly organized and prestigious civilization.

Aronian made the interesting point that if I could force a passed a-pawn I might have winning chances

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

I had a chance at him now. Things were a bit more even. He knew my name, I knew his. He had six years' experience, I had five thousand and ten. That was the kind of odds that you could do something with.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

Every dog must have his day.

A lot can go wrong in twelve hours.

How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.

There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.

Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions.

Moments after his death, an event he had failed to notice, Gordon Small sought new employment

That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

You don't get another chance. Life is no Nintendo game.

The moment I used my adversity to my advantage, my career exploded.

You can't change who you are, but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought, act on it.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Engrved on Statue of Liberty

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

The ceremonial oat tour." She reaches in the shopping bag and takes out the milk bar with almonds, ripping it open. "It must be so hard for guys in relationships - to have just one girlfriend completely devoted to taking care of all your whole-grain needs. I can see how at the first opportunity you'd just have to get out there and - sow.

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.