Quotes About Opportunity

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television — of that I am quite sure.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

America is not just a country, but a way of life.

We use 10% of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60%.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it, no small deduction from the little life of man. Cicero has termed them intercisiva tempora, and the ancients were not ignorant of their value; nay, it was not unusual with them either to compose or to dictate, while under the operation of rubbing after the bath.

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now.

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There is a Time to wink, as well as to see.

This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.

It was exhilarating to help bring down the barriers that, in Justice Brennan's words, put women less "on a pedestal" than "in a cage." So much has changed for the better since then. True, we have not reached Nirvana, but the progress I have seen in my lifetime makes me optimistic for the future. Our communities, nation, and world will be increasingly improved as women achieve their rightful place in all fields of human endeavor.

All that stands between the college graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.

The dream is one of equality and opportunity... men will dare to live together as brothers... Whenever it is fulfilled, we will emerge from the bleak and desolate midnight of man's inhumanity to man into the bright and glowing daybreak of freedom and justice for all of God's children.

At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish.

Get your money when the patient is in pain.

If you are a gardener, you can always put "Plant Manager" on your résumé.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the years as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

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Yiipppeeee! It's a new day! A special day. It's today!

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody — a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns — bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.