Quotes About Opportunity

has a less than 1-in-20 shot at making it to the top. The idea that so many children are born into poverty in the wealthiest nation on Earth is heartbreaking enough. But the idea that a child may never be able to escape that poverty because she lacks a decent education or health care, or a community that views her future as their own, that should offend all of us and it should compel us to

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

Do you have such periods too? Periods you wish you could go back to, because you let them pass, because you wasted them, not realizing how precious they were? Periods you threw away like—how does the line go—like pearls before swine? Periods that, if only you could turn the wheel of time back to them, you would knit and embroider forever into your being, never letting them go?

Zaczynasz nowe ?ycie? -Pierwszy raz zaczynam nowe ?ycie. -Dlaczego mówisz "pierwszy"? -Bo chyba przez ca?e ?ycie b?dziemy zaczyna? nowe ?ycie.

We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse.

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

Fate is fate," Stark said. "It's there. It doesn't change. We just don't see it until we walk into it. Or it walks into us.

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out being very good

I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.

He who cannot dance says the stage is not ready

Make hay while the sun shines.

In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

The fact is, women's rights are human rights. We must fight for everyone to have access to a level playing field.

In all your life, only a few moments matter. Mostly you never get a good look at them except in hindsight, long after they've zipped past you: the moment when you decided whether to talk to that girl, slow down on that blind bend, stop and find that condom. I was lucky, I guess you could call it. I got to see one of mine face-to-face, and recognize it for what it was.

Do you see now why I believe in miracles? I used to imagine time folding over, the shades of our future selves slipping back to the crucial moments to tap each of us on the shoulder and whisper: Look, there, look! That man, that woman: they're for you; that's your life, your future, fidgeting in the line, dripping on the carpet, shuffling in that doorway. Don't miss it.

It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste your energy thinking about it. What matters is where you're going. And that, mate, is something you can control.

It doesn't matter where you come from. There's nothing you can do about it, so don't waste energy thinking about it. what matters is where you are going.

When we left school, it was the early eighties. This country was on its knees. There were no jobs, none. If you couldn't go into Daddy's business, you emigrated or went on the dole. Even if you had the money and the points for college—and we didn't—that just put it off for a few years.

one never really knows what one is capable of until the situation presents itself.

The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

Starting over didn't have to be scary or painful if you looked at it for what it was—a clean slate, a chance to create something entirely different, a chance to discard all things that weren't in sync with personal philosophies. Hope.

It's true what they say … it's never the things you did that haunt you most … it's the things you didn't do, but wish you had.