Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dionne Warwick

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Dave Navarro

I'm thrilled I have the opportunity to do the 'Spread' show and have the terrific sponsors that we work with like Nikon or Verizon.

Edward Zwick

What I was really overwhelmed with by Africa was its tremendous natural beauty; I got to go to some pretty amazing places. Every other weekend we got a day or two off and go on a safari or the natural wonders of Africa and if anyone gets the opportunity to go there, it's something you have to do in your lifetime.

Edward Zwick

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

We were close. We need to find some way to get over the edge. We had an opportunity to win and didn't do it.

Abraham Lincoln

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

Abraham Lincoln

I will learn, the opportunity will come.

should be an opportunity to strengthen relations with France, not weaken them.

Ernie Grunfeld

Since we upgraded our backcourt situation the way we have, he didn't think he has an opportunity here. He preferred being in another situation.

Ernie Grunfeld

Since we upgraded our backcourt situation the way we have, he didn't think he had an opportunity here. He preferred being in another situation.

Edward Norton

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

Edward Norton

People think because I went to Yale that that implies privilege, and it is a privilege in the sense that it's an incredible opportunity.

Edward Snowden

Suspicionless surveillance has no place in a democracy. The next 60 days are a historic opportunity to rein in the NSA, but the only one who can end the worst of its abuses is you. Call your representatives and tell them that the unconstitutional 'bulk collection' of Americans' private records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act must end.

Bruce Braley

I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

Bruce Braley

There are too many people trying to take opportunity from people in the middle class.

Brian Griese

There's lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances you'll never dare to be great at anything.

Brandon Marshall

I appreciate America for all the opportunities it's afforded me.

Archibald Alexander

God has set before you an open door which no man has a right or power to shut. If you should be shut out, it will be by your own unbelief, and not for want of a warrant to come. Enter, then, without delay or hesitation. None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

Barbara Kruger

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

Ashley Wagner

The Grand Prix Final is an opportunity for me to go out and experience new jumping passes in competition. I put in a triple loop-half loop-triple Salchow in the second of the program. It's a very difficult jumping pass so this is a chance for me to try out the new elements and the adjusted jumping layout to get prepared for nationals.

This provides a remarkable opportunity and a remarkable responsibility.

Bashar al-Assad

Trust that the thing in life that excites you the most comes complete with all the tools necessary to support you in the doing of that thing. It is automatic; it is built in. All you need to do is act on the opportunities that doing that situation brings to you.

Barbara Mikulski

One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

She's been ready. She's just been waiting for that opportunity to come in and she had it tonight. She did well.

Dick Van Dyke

Anyone who doesn't sing and dance at every opportunity is missing out on the joy of life.

Demosthenes

Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

Debra Messing

You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.

Dean Stockwell

Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.

Edgar Allan Poe

Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

Elbert Hubbard

Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.