Quotes About Opportunity

We can never know what else might have happened had other competitors been there. The Russian girls could have won, or they could have gotten jet-lagged and choked." Anna shrugged. "And this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It's the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.

For Ms. Pac-Man, Anna thought, life was cheap and filled with second chances.

Until Harvard, he had not realized that in America—and not just in its college theaters—there were only so many roles an Asian could play.

But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through.

If it doesn't work, all we've lost is a lot of time and money." Sam laughed. "Let's do this," he said.

The best part of this moment, he thought, is that everything is still possible.

the first topic that comes to mind is often a woman's right to choose or sexual assault, but I believe the most important women's issue is the wage gap. I believe this is the root issue from which all other inequalities stem . . .

A doorway, she thought. A portal. The possibility of a different world. The possibility that you might walk through the door and reinvent yourself as something better than you had been before.

?ôi khi ph?i ch? tá»›i má»™t th?i Ä'i?m thích h?p, nh?ng cu?n sách má»›i tìm ??n chúng ta.

I didn't call you because I had met someone better, and when that didn't work out, I decided to give you a second chance. So don't be thinking you're superior. You've got a decent smile, I'll give you that, but your teeth are too big and so is your ass and you're not twenty-five anymore even if you drink like you are. You shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.

She realized what a gate was: it was an indication that you had left one space and were entering another. She walked through another gate. It occurred to Sadie: She had thought after Ichigo that she would never fail again. She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn't.)

What's Torschlusspanik?" Sam said. "It means 'gate-shut panic,' " Simon said. "It's the fear that time is running out and that you're going to miss an opportunity. Literally, the gate is closing, and you'll never get in.

I stort sett allt som är dåligt här i livet är en följd av dålig tajming, medan allt som är bra är en följd av bra tajming (s. 114).

and I'll tell you, pretty much every bad thing in life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is the result of good timing." "That

Harvard was need-blind (that was significantly why he had chosen it), but even his generous financial aid package didn't cover everything. He didn't owe much, but he couldn't conceive of asking Dong Hyun and Bong Cha to help with his loans, and he had not gone to Harvard to be a poor person.

most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.

En su opinión, con solo que la gente diera una oportunidad a muchas cosas, se resolverían la mayoría de sus problemas.

The best part of this moment is that everything is still possible.

stores. And some children are left in sandwich shops. And your whole life is determined by what store you get left in. She does not want to live in the sandwich shop.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time." "Not

In Amelia's experience, most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance. Amelia

We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.

Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —GEORGE ELIOT, Scenes of Clerical Life