Opportunity Quotes · Page 75

In the deaths of figures such as George H.W. Bush there's another opportunity to prize the civility we lament as having passed.

— Jessica Tarlov

It was hard telling those kids...that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss…

— Christa McAuliffe

I wouldn't call myself a commitment-phobe, but someone who really likes to try everything to the point of wanting to do short-term…

— Brittany Kaiser

It's time to update traditional public schools, charter schools, home schools, online schools and parochial schools. Let the dollars follow the child…

— Bobby Jindal

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

— Anna Chennault

Freedom is not simply the circumstances that allow you to do whatever you want. Freedom is not only the opportunity to choose.…

— Matthew Kelly

They [Theodore White and Lou Harris] took turns weeping, and finally concluded that Rockefeller got the votes of everyone in California who…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

The two genres that probably take the most flack in literature - they are young adult and romance right now. I don't…

— Leigh Bardugo

National Cancer Prevention Day, Feb. 4, is a great opportunity to focus our attention on what should be an American priority.

— Margaret Cuomo

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.

— Helen Schucman

Voting is something that we all have a right to. It's not something that we have to do... it's absolutely an honor…

— Grace Potter

I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very…

— Ori Gersht

Most young talented players I worked with over many, many years who I've met later have said, 'Oh, I wish I'd listened…

— Sam Allardyce

There's other people in life. Other options. Other opportunities. Why should you grasp into one human being expecting the best out of…

— Ash Sweeney

I think everyone has dreams, and its just how you go about pursuing that. And I think anybody can do anything that…

— Josie Loren

Nobody except you can make your life better by making the right decisions at the right moment and doing what you love.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment…

— Will Wright

But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well…

— Charles Ferguson

While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review…

— Fred Thompson

I am delighted to have joined Manchester United. To work with Jose Mourinho once again was an opportunity I couldn't turn down.

— Nemanja Matic

Lack of dignity and equal opportunity at workplace for women in cinema is a truth that needs role reversal.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs and be vulnerable to…

— Pope Francis

You demonstrate biblical love when you take steps to restore a fellow-believer overtaken in sin. This not only encourages a fallen believer…

— John C. Broger

My parents are immigrants to this country. They came to this country for a better opportunity just like everyone else.

— Amine

The menu of this kitchen will have more than soup; it will serve as an opportunity to explore the vast untapped power…

— Sam Kass

There are some die-hard male chauvinist pigs and there are some Neanderthal women who are threatened by equality - but the great…

— Betty Friedan

There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and…

— Kehinde Wiley

My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Our Canadian friends who live in border towns are integral to the fabric of Vermont, and they create economic opportunity for both…

— Phil Scott

It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their…

— Richard Branson

My fear is that we will mistake the brand, the "resistance," for greater unity than actually exists and wind up settling for…

— Michelle Alexander

There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population.…

— Robert D. Hare

When I explain our company values and the foundation to prospective employees, they realize that they have an opportunity to do much…

— Marc Benioff

When you're a large company with significant market share, it's tempting to view market disruptions as a threat, but we view them…

— John T. Chambers

It's interesting for myself, growing up as an Asian-American filmmaker. Coming into the industry, my parents always said, "No one's going to…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always…

— Harrison Ford

Superhero stories are kind of in my DNA from childhood on, so I think I'm genetically drawn to playing in the genre…

— J. Michael Straczynski

It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity,…

— Abbie Hoffman

I dont choose things because I have to. I choose things because my success gives me the freedom to.

— Jamie Timbre

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than…

— Richard P. Feynman