Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Spurgeon

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Charles Spurgeon

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Moore

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Green

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

Darren Shan

I know who the demon thief is - it's me!

Bob Dylan

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

Aristotle

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

Ben Kingsley

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

Ally Carter

Time, the greatest thief of all.

Daniel Defoe

Pleasure is a thief to business.

Clive Barker

We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

E. L. Konigsburg

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

Greg Evans

Part of perseverance is knowing what you want. Indecision is as useful as road signs in Spain written in Dutch.

Hal Joseph

The legislative process keeps chugging and nothing happens. It is this indecision that is so difficult.

Napoleon Hill

The worst of all human ailments: indecision.

Michael Gough

There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate.

James Richardson

Patience is decisive indecision.

L. Ron Hubbard

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.