Famous Quotes & Sayings

People when they migrate rarely do it in a vacuum. There is some connective tissue ... here there were the familial roots, plus the opportunity for fishing.

KaDee Strickland

As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.

Lykke Li

I will grab any opportunity I can to learn something new.

Jane Austen

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

Janine Turner

I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding.

Janet Yellen

I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.

I'm always just excited about every opportunity that comes my way.

Now that I have this opportunity to show them that I can pitch, I have to just go out there and make pitches.

Obviously, it does give us an opportunity to start off (conference play) with a win and not a loss,

Jeff Suppan

Obviously, if you get the opportunity that's great,

Miroslav Satan

I feel responsible for this game, ... To get an opportunity like that, with a penalty shot, you should put it in.

Parthiv Patel

I have been waiting for the past two years and now I have got another opportunity to prove my talent.

I'd like to give the seniors another opportunity to prove that we're better than we performed tonight.

Eugene Levy

I don't know whether (comics) have the opportunity to be as well-rounded, necessarily,

The biggest complaint from people wanting to start a business is, "I don't have capital." Banks aren't lending but if they were, it would give you a greater opportunity to screw things up. So it will help you be creative and spend less. If you have a proven business plan, share with friends and family.

Cameron Sinclair

Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle behind Architecture for Humanity since our founding.

Miley Cyrus

The greatest opportunities in life come with fear and risk.

Burt Reynolds

If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right". If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air.

Busta Rhymes

Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places.

Busta Rhymes

I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally.

Cesar Chavez

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

Al Capone

Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.

Al Capone

This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Al Gore

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there. We should feel a great sense of urgency because it is the most dangerous crisis we have ever faced, by far. But it also provides us with opportunities to do a lot of things we ought to be doing for other reasons anyway. And to solve this crisis we can develop a shared sense of moral purpose.

Al Gore

We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.

Charles R. Swindoll

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

Charles Kettering

The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.

Charles Darwin

It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.

Barry Goldwater

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

Anushka Sharma

Whenever opportunity comes Kohli grabs it with both the hands.

Antonin Scalia

The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.