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"Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like "Be careful what you wish for," she should have told me time slides away on a hillside of loose shale and takes everything in its path - dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all."
"Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them."
"The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely."
"If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities."
"First of all, feminism is not man-hating, not man-berating. It is not saying we are better. It is just saying we want the same opportunities, and we want to be able to make decisions on our own without being judged for them. We want the same freedom men have enjoyed over the years, so I think that's the place where we are. And it's completely not mutually exclusive at all for how you want to look, how you take care of yourself, how you want to be, what you want to look like."
"I suppose it is one time when you can really use your name to raise money. And if I am going to use it for anything, what more of a better opportunity (than) to use it here."
"An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity."
"The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times."
"I would say my mind is always working - no matter where I am I continue to see opportunities all around me. My only sorrow is that I can't possibly explore them all!"
"Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more."
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
"When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden."
"I truly believe that I make my path and I set my course, and where I land, at the end of the day, or the end of my career, [is] because of me. Of course, you get help along the way, and cosigns and management and opportunities and things like that but overall, the ball is in your court basically."
"Ability has nothing to do with opportunity."
"If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity"
"I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity."
"The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service."
"If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity."
"It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend."
"Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."
