Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gavin MacLeod

Sometimes you don’t get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. Always.

Gabrielle Union

I think if we open ourselves to all different kinds of men and all groups, we find a lot more opportunities to love.

When I joined Gucci in 2002, I immediately wanted to make a research trip into the archives because I'd heard about how incredible they were, but I never had the opportunity to visit them.

Freida Pinto

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

Frank Lautenberg

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.

Joyce Brothers

It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be.

Joseph Muscat

Students should not feel as if they had missed the boat if they failed examinations and should be presented with more opportunities to further their studies.

Julianne Hough

I've been acting my whole life, which people don't realize. I just haven't had the opportunities that I've had with my dancing.

There is so much extraordinary opportunity if you're curious, if you're interested.

Joshua Jackson

Ive had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you dont, she just completely overpowers you.

Karl Kraus

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

Julius Nyerere

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

Julius Streicher

Social Democracy preached against capitalism for half a century. After the November revolution the Reds had the opportunity to direct capitalism into the proper paths: but nothing happened!

Kanye West

I think I started to approach time in a different way after the accident. Before I was more willing to give my time to people and things that I wasn't as interested in because somehow I allowed myself to be brainwashed into being forced to work with other people or on other projects that I had no interest in. So simply, the accident gave me the opportunity to do what I really wanted to do.

Kanye West

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Kanye West

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

Julie Payette

The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

Paul Tournier

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Patrick Dixon

To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities.

Patrick Ewing

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

Patrick Carney

And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

Maggie Gallagher

The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

Madchen Amick

Everybody loves vampire stories, and if theres one show in particular thats done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

Haruki Murakami

How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing." "Have you read it?" "No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust.

Greer Garson

All I know about getting something that you want is that there are three essential things: wanting, trying and getting the opportunity, the breaks. None works alone without the others. Wanting is basic. Trying is up to you. And the breaks - I do know this, they always happen.

Graydon Carter

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

Louis Pasteur

Luck favors the mind that is prepared.

John Brunner

Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.

John Baldacci

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

M. Scott Peck

All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach.

Lupita Nyong'o

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for black women. But right now I don't know what's next. I hope that there are more opportunities to come my way.

Luis Guzman

I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.

Maud Adams

I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.