Quotes About Opportunity

Mary and Joseph," he said, "turned a very embarrassing situation into one of the greatest coups in history. Clever, clever, clever!

Both silent, when there is need, and speaking in season.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

A word in season is most precious.

Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.

Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up. - Cape Coast, Ghana.

Oh! money! All the troubles in the world can be put down to money—or the lack of it.

I had the firm conviction that, if I went about looking for adventure, adventure would meet me halfway. It is a theory of mine that one always gets what one wants.

Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.

Sometimes what you think is an end is only a beginning. And that wouldn't do at all.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Life was not a matter of safety— it must be hazarded to win the game.

Next year, maybe, she will look back on the experience and tell her friends that it was "fun"; but oh, the pity of it, not to gather the flowers of the Present, to let them wither, and never pluck them till they are dried wrecks of the Past!

the world is full of the young – or even the middle-aged – who wait, patiently or impatiently, for the death of someone whose decease will give them if not affluence – then opportunity

Quién puede afirmar que aquel niño no podría haberse convertido en un gran músico o en el descubridor de la vacuna contra el cáncer? O algo menos melodramático: podría convertirse en una persona feliz y normal...

No se reconocen los momentos realmente importantes en la vida hasta que es demasiado tarde.

It's maddening really," said Patricia. "Probably the only chance in my life that I shall ever have of being right on the spot when a murder was done—it is a murder, isn't it? The papers were very cautious and vague, but I said to Gerry on the telephone that it must be murder. Think of it, a murder done right close by me and I wasn't even looking!" The regret in her voice was unmistakable.

There is always a brave new world," said Poirot, "but only, you know, for very special people. The lucky ones. The ones who carry the making of that world within themselves." ? Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

if you're born on the wrong side of the wall, I can't see that it's wrong to climb over it.

It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

And some look through a broken spyglass onto the horizon in search for gold

Ha ka noqon goobaha waxbarashada macmiil joogto ah! Noqo mid ka midho dhaliya hadafka ardaynimo.

There's this magical sense of possibility that stretches like a bridge between June and August. A sense that anything can happen.