Quotes About Opportunity

a time when newly graduated college kids could come to New York and get paid to write. We had no clue that we were embarking on careers that would vanish within a decade.

Had things turned out differently, I might have amused myself with a series of heart-wretched lovers. I might have dallied with brilliant men. I might have married.

Lucky me, I'd ended up just getting another lesson revealing the basic blackness lying below the human heart. Once again I'd seen that, given incentive and opportunity, most anybody will jump at the chance to turn wicked. And the wicked will turn wickeder still. Priests of a thousand cults proclaim the essential goodliness of Man. They must be fools. All I see is people flinging themselves at the chance to do evil.

How many chances do you get to do something new?

We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

The beginnings are gone, Laurel. But we can start with today and what you got around you.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Challenge isn't going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It's going to come from life.

How many people ever get a do-over at life? Falling on my head was the best thing that ever happened to me.

This is an awful thing that's happened to you, but it's also presenting you with a rare opportunity. You have the chance to rebuild yourself from the ground up, to make a completely fresh start. Don't

Risks aren't risks when the consequences are no worse than your regular life.

Vlad always told me that woulda-shoulda-coulda is a sucker's game.

You want me to stop and give the Wizards a chance to do it?" he shot back. Dead

Good things happen when you get out of your comfort zone and try stuff.

What are your thoughts for the upcoming season?

He could already hear the "You haven't even given it a chance yet" lecture, one of his mother's favorites. Then his father would deliver the crowning touch with "Life is what you make it." It was a devastating combination

Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.

I plainly lacked Wilkinson's doggedness in pursuing those commanders who might help me up in the world.

You stand in a puddle when I would give you an ocean...*

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

As long as nothing happens anything is possible...

That was another mystery: it sometimes seemed to him that venial sins—impatience, an unimportant lie, pride, a neglected opportunity—cut you off from grace more completely than the worst sins of all.

Im Leben der meisten Menschen gibt es einen Augenblick, in dem man nicht mehr zurück kann.

But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.