Quotes About Opportunity

Life, it seemed was full of regret, and he yearned to turn back the clock so he could love parts of his life over again.

Instead, it had more to do with the sense that somehow she'd lost sight of the person she'd once meant to be, and she wasn't sure she'd ever have the opportunity to find that person again.

Los momentos clave, combinados con decisiones y acciones conscientes, y con una buena dosis de esperanza, pueden arrastrarte a un futuro que parece predestinado.

Life is full of second chances.

Life always offers you a second chance. It's called tomorrow!

Pasara lo que pasara, se concedería otra oportunidad. Una oportunidad justa, sin importarle lo que dijeran los demás

Pasara lo que pasara, se concedería otra oportunidad. Una oportunidad justa, sin importarle lo que dijeran los demás" "Quizá por eso, cuando hablo con mi madre, siempre tengo la impresión de que hay un abismo entre las dos

Creo que en la vida todo es posible.

Adventure is a word with many connotations, not all of them good.

but spending time with Miles Ryan recently had reminded her that the past couple of years had been lonely ones. In the classroom, it was usually easy to avoid such thoughts. Standing in front of the blackboard, she was able to focus completely on the students, those small faces that stared at her with wonder. She'd come to view them as her kids, and she wanted to make sure they had every opportunity for success in the world.

Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.

It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.

I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments. These moments come along fairly infrequently -during crises in relationships, for example, or when one has been given the chance to start afresh somewhere- and one can ignore them or seize them.

People go on about the first time being important, but it's the second time that really matters. Or the second person, anyway.

because dangling your legs over the precipice is nothing unless you're prepared to go that extra two inches, and none of us had been. We could tell each other and ourselves something different -- oh, I would have done it if she hadn't been there or he hadn't been there or if someone hadn't sat on my head -- but that fact of the matter was that we were all still around, and we'd all had ample opportunity not to be.

If he'd known how long he was going to spend in the airport lounge of his own life, he'd have made different travel arrangements..

I work it out. It is the act of reading itself I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the wold until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.

And what are we saying, anyway? That only old money is allowed to buy success? Isn't that a little like telling Noel and Liam Gallagher that they aren't allowed to make anything of themselves because they didn't go to Eton?

Anyway, all I'm saying is that there was this time--maybe it was a day, maybe a few days, I can't remember now--when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.

In retrospect, their best chance of doing it this way was against Arsenal, in the game they won 8–2. They only needed another nine that afternoon – and they missed at least fifteen good chances.

Don't you ever have conversations where someone took a wrong turn at some point, and then it goes on and on and it becomes too late to put things right?

Lucy understood it now. The referendum was giving groups of people who didn't like each other, or at least failed to comprehend each other, an opportunity to fight.

And if you never go anywhere or do anything, life is cheap.

Let her wonder. It's not often that I get the chance to be enigmatic and perplexing.