Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

Ian McDiarmid

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to explore ... alternative ways of living for a brief time.

Ian MacKaye

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

Ian Mcewan

Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.

Hugh Laurie

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Hugh Jackman

I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.

Horace

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

Richard Jefferson

If I get an opportunity to play for a championship team, I'm going to go hunting for that. I have no loyalty.

Richard Hamilton

I come from a place where this doesn't happen. To be here is unbelievable because when everyone tells you, you can't do something, you can't do something, you can't do something, and you get the opportunity to be in the NBA, to win a championship, and now, to be an All-Star, it's unbelievable.

I am not too worried. It is more an opportunity than a problem.

I don't think (this loss) is damaging. I think it's an opportunity missed.

Huey Long

Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.

Howard Rheingold

Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.

Howard Schultz

The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business.

Howard Schultz

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

Howard Schultz

The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared.

Howard Schultz

We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

Howard Schultz

The entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well.

Howard E. Koch

Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge…. But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a false picture of reality as distorting as the trick mirrors in a Coney Island funhouse.

Howard Berger

It was the most amazing opportunity to work on a period movie and transform Anthony Hopkins into Hitchcock.

Howard Fineman

I`ve always thought of him [Barack Obama] and from conversations know him to be a guy who takes the long view, who doesn`t get too high, doesn`t get too low and seizes the opportunities when they`re there and knows how to ride the wave. I ascribe that to Hawaii. He`s a body surfer, so he knows how to get on the wave. He knows just the right time.

Ibrahim Babangida

To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

James E. Faust

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

James Bovard

Americans' liberty is perishing beneath the constant growth of government power. Federal, state and local government's are confiscating citizens' property, trampling their rights, and decimating their opportunities more than ever before.... American liberty can still be rescued from the encroachments of government. The first step to saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose unless fundamental political changes occur.

Jalen Rose

An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.

Jamaica Kincaid

In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?

Jack Youngblood

Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between

James Geary

Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

Izabel Goulart

Modeling has given me the opportunity to travel outside of Brazil and see the world. I have been meeting many interesting and talented people along the way.

Iyanla Vanzant

Life doesn't actually knock you down. It does, however, provide you with many opportunities to evaluate your standing in life: what you stand on, what you stand for, how you stand within yourself and for yourself.

Ron Dayne

Hopefully, I'll get an opportunity to do it, and I'll do my best.