Quotes About Opportunity

I have a wonderful idea. Maybe when you become a Twelve, they'll give you the Assignment of Storyteller!

It's never too late while you're breathing.

The future is happening right here, every day. You can swim or you can drown, but you can't choose not to be in the flood. I suppose the real insight is that it's always been that way.

Another day will put some other plate on your table, more to your taste, but do not waste the food in front of you.

Although even then, it hadn't been because he hadn't wanted to learn—just that he hadn't wanted to learn what had been set on the plate in front of him that day.  The power to select his own plates had changed everything.

don't be afraid of troubles, Silver. They're a sign of life.

The shuttle bumped, bounced, banged, rocked, and roared out over the flat, cracked surface. She was sorry she had never made a pass at Leo. Clearly, you could die while waiting for other people to start your life for you. Her seat harness cut across her breasts as deceleration sucked her forward and the rumbling vibration rattled her teeth.

from the outside most people can't tell the rapid exploitation of a belatedly recognized opportunity from deep-laid planning.

ability promoted regardless of background.

Miles repented his younger sexual reticence altogether, now. Profoundly. We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. And Bel had been beautiful, in its own ironic way, living and moving at ease in a body athletic, healthy, and trim.

I offer you an honorable new beginning. I do not guarantee its ending. Attempts fail, but not as certainly as tasks never attempted.

Think of this visit as an opportunity for a different kind of learning, then. Another day will put some other plate on your table, more to your taste, but do not waste the food in front of you.

You will never regret having done so. But you may deeply regret not having done so.

Luck is something you make for yourself, if you want it.

Finding love isn't about finding someone at the right time. It's about finding the right person, regardless of the time.

You have been given a second chance to start your life over. You can't throw this opportunity away. If you do you will be a colossal fool. If you get the chance to do something and don't do it then you'll simply live with regret. That's a worse situation than trying something daring and maybe not succeeding. At least you tried. Isn't that what you want to show your kids?

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day,' and this is one of the times I'm right.

Un hombre inteligente siempre sabe cuando retirarse a tiempo...pero un hombre aun mas inteligente sabe cuando volver a empezar

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.

You are too gifted a person to be living in a state that borders on North Dakota.

It sometimes happens that in relatively powerless and impoverished countries there arise men of enormous vision who are frustrated and offended by the limitations of their lives and seek to reach out for the stars on behalf of themselves and their nations.

One is only young once, but in her case it was once too often.

for the bird that cannot soar, God has provided low branches.

The only ones worse off than us is borstal boys. Or those boys that get sent to public school, because if you think about it, them schools are really just posh borstal.