Quotes About Opportunity

Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.

No es que espere que salgáis en busca de Haliax y los Siete. «Hombres pequeños, actos pequeños», digo yo siempre. Imagino que el problema reside en encontrar un trabajo lo bastante pequeño para unos hombres como vosotros. Pero tenéis recursos. Podríais recoger basura, o mirar si hay piojos en las camas de los burdeles cuando los visitáis.

un hombre sin el beneficio de la educación es poco más que un animal

nearly half full, seating about two hundred students. The room was

You needed money or brains to get into the university, the more of one you had, the less of the other you needed".

Its like seed grain, at the end of a long winter if you have some of the grain left, you can use ir for seed, you have control over your life, you can use that grain and make plan for the future, but if you have no grain for seed in the spring you are helpless, no amount of hard work or good intentions will make crops grow if you don't have the seed to start with".

Thriving metropolis. Home to dozens.

Every exit is an entrance to someplace else.

No one expected me. Everything awaited me.

I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished ... art's finished, rock and roll is dead, God is dead. Fuck that! This is my chance in the world. I didn't live back there in Mesopotamia, I wasn't there in the Garden of Eden, I wasn't there with Emperor Han, I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realise that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now.

All doors are open to the believer. It is the lesson of the Samaritan woman at the well.

All doors are open to the believer. It is the lesson of the Samaritan woman at the well. In my sleepy state it occurred to me that if the well was a portal out, there must also be a portal in. There

All doors are open to the believer.

It was a good day to arrive in New York City. No one expected me. Everything awaited me.

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Much later, when he was able to think about the things that happened to him, he would conclude that nothing was real except chance.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out

There is no escape from this. Either you do or you don't. And if you do, you can't be sure of doing it the next time. And if you don't, you never will again.

Speak now before it is too late, and then hope to go on speaking until there is nothing more to be said.

that once you throw your life to the winds, you will discover things you had never known before, things that cannot be learned under any other circumstances.

Anything was possible, and just because things happened in one way didn't mean they couldn' t happen in another.