Quotes About Opportunity

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it.

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

the world is what you make it

You see that was Peter's chance to show what he was made of, and he didn't miss his chance. He did the right thing, even though he was afraid. It's a great thing not to miss one's chance.

You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?

The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.

Ah, how I rue that what I could have done I did not do!

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

If Capitalism improves the economic position all round, it is of secondary importance that it does not raise all to the same level. A social order is not bad simply because it helps one more than the other.

Coloro che combattono per la libera concorrenza non difendono gli interessi di quelli che sono ricchi. Vogliono che sia lasciata mano libera a uomini sconosciuti, che saranno gli imprenditori di domani e la cui ingegnosità renderà più piacevole la vita delle generazioni future.

in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.

The minute I stand up, I've jumped off the cliff. The world goes by in a haze of color and light; my weight accelerates, head-over-heels. Then I think, falling is the first step in learning how to fly.

At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one. (from Vanishing Acts)

It never failed to amaze Alex how, with the brush of a hand, the track of someone's life might veer in a completely different direction.

Danger came in different packages, at different points in a lifetime.

All I'm saying is that the past is nothing but a springboard for the future.

The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

If, even after you make what everyone considers to be the biggest mistake of your life, you stop thinking it's a mistake and may be see it as the best thing that ever could have happened.

At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one.

When the universe calls, don't place it on hold.

That's all a human life is, really—a do-over, a chance to get it right Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or you'll be brought back to try again.

Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed." I look at her. "The first one sounds fair. The second one is fair. It's equal to give a printed test to two kids. But if one's blind and one's sighted, that's not true. You ought to give one a Braille test and one a printed test, which both cover the same material.