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Opportune Quotes By Bell Hooks

Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune. — Bell Hooks

Opportune Quotes By Jack Sparrow

If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it. — Jack Sparrow

Opportune Quotes By Sylvester Stallone

I think I came along at an opportune time. I don't know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed. — Sylvester Stallone

Opportune Quotes By Nathaniel Mackey

And it's a case in point of the fact that these traditions - the mythology, the lore - are not being gone to as some kind of fixed, given entity that one then has to have a subservient relationship to. They are active and unfinished; they are subject to change; they are themselves in the process of transformation and transition. They speak to an open and open-ended possibility that the poetics that I've been involved in very much speaks to as well. To see cracks and incompleteness as not only inevitable but opportune. — Nathaniel Mackey

Opportune Quotes By Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Natural Magick is taken to be nothing else, but the chief power of all the natural Sciences; which therefore they call the top and perfection of Natural Philosophy, and which is indeed the active part of the same; which by the assistance of natural forces and faculties, through their mutual & opportune application, performs those things that are above Human Reason. — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Opportune Quotes By Umberto Eco

The Massalians are not dualists but monarchians, and they have dealings with the infernal powers, and in fact some texts call them Borborites, from borboros, filth, because of the unspeakable things they do."
"What do they do?"
"The usual unspeakable things. Men and women hold in the palm of their hand, and raise to heaven, their own ignominy, namely, sperm or menstruum, then eat it, calling it the Body of Christ. And if by chance a woman is made pregnant, at the opportune moment they stick a hand into her womb, pull out the embryo, throw it into a mortar, mix in some honey and pepper, and gobble it up."
"How revolting, honey and pepper!" Diotallevi said. — Umberto Eco

Opportune Quotes By William Shakespeare

As I hope
For quiet days, fair issue, and long life,
With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,
The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion
Our worser genius can, shall never melt
Mine honour into lust, to take away
The edge of that day's celebration,
When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd
Or Night kept chain'd below. — William Shakespeare

Opportune Quotes By Jack Youngblood

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times. — Jack Youngblood

Opportune Quotes By Sharon Kay Penman

I am not going to let him win, Guillaume. Not this time. I could not keep him from making my mother pay the price for our failed rebellion. Fifteen years she has been his prisoner, fifteen years! And she is his prisoner, for all that she no longer wants for a queen's comforts. I have had to submit to his demands and subject myself to his whims and endure the indignity of having him brandish the crown before me as he would tease a dog with a bone. But no more. I will not let him rob me of my birthright, and I will not let him keep me from honoring my vow to defend the Holy Land. I do think he is behind that very opportune rebellion in my duchy, and I would not put it past him to be conniving with the Count of Toulouse, either. And if by chance he did not, it is only because he did not think of it. No, a reckoning is long overdue, and we will have it at Bonsmoulins. — Sharon Kay Penman

Opportune Quotes By Chuck Pierce

Know that there is a great separation that must take place to overthrow the enemy ahead who has been coming in and taking away at an opportune time. I must rearrange My people's call so that their opportunity will be seen in a different way. Hear, today, the clarion call and know that it is a Gideon time upon My people. — Chuck Pierce

Opportune Quotes By Austin Osman Spare

Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers and no vengeance worse than the body denied. — Austin Osman Spare

Opportune Quotes By Timothy McIntyre

Retirement with its open canvas, is an especially opportune time to cultivate expanded experiences. — Timothy McIntyre

Opportune Quotes By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Opportune Quotes By Lois Wyse

A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing ... — Lois Wyse

Opportune Quotes By Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Never ignore others because you are opportune to find yourself in a much better state than them; you just never know what the future holds". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Opportune Quotes By Pope John XXIII

We deem it opportune to remind our children of their duty to take an active part in public life and to contribute toward the attainment of the common good of the entire human family as well as to that of their own political community. They should endeavor, therefore, in the light of their Christian faith and led by love, to insure that the various institutions - whether economic, social, cultural or political in purpose - should be such as not to create obstacles, but rather to facilitate or render less arduous man's perfecting of himself in both the natural order and the supernatural.... Every believer in this world of ours must be a spark of light, a center of love, a vivifying leaven amidst his fellow men. And he will be this all the more perfectly, the more closely he lives in communion with God in the intimacy of his own soul — Pope John XXIII

Opportune Quotes By Frantz Fanon

The missionaries find it opportune to remind the masses that long before the advent of European colonialism the great African empires were disrupted by the Arab invasion. There is no hesitation in saying that it was the Arab occupation which paved the way for European colonialism; Arab imperialism commonly spoken of, and the cultural imperialism of Islam is condemned. — Frantz Fanon

Opportune Quotes By Teresa Hairston

Man operates in chronos, or measured time; God operates in kairos - an opportune or supreme moment. The determination of when kairos moments take place is in accordance with God's sovereignty, and is far beyond our human grasp of understanding or control. However, God's timing is always perfect and our submission to His timing is critical to our personal peace. — Teresa Hairston

Opportune Quotes By Derek Landy

I don't show off. I merely demonstrate my abilities at opportune times. — Derek Landy

Opportune Quotes By Charlie Chaplin

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune. — Charlie Chaplin

Opportune Quotes By Hesiod

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things. — Hesiod

Opportune Quotes By Neal Stephenson

With reference to viral infections," the Librarian says, "if I may make a fairly blunt, spontaneous cross-reference - something I am coded to do at opportune moments - you may wish to examine herpes simplex, a virus that takes up residence in the nervous system and never leaves. It is capable of carrying new genes into existing neurons and genetically reengineering them. Modern gene therapists use it for this purpose. Lagos thought that herpes simplex might be a modern, benign descendant of Asherah. — Neal Stephenson

Opportune Quotes By Stephen King

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the least opportune moments. — Stephen King

Opportune Quotes By Alan Keyes

Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty. — Alan Keyes

Opportune Quotes By Stephen Jay Gould

People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners are later inventions - words that people wished they had spouted, but failed to manufacture at the truly opportune instant. — Stephen Jay Gould

Opportune Quotes By Newell Dwight Hillis

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives. — Newell Dwight Hillis

Opportune Quotes By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at the opportune moment. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Opportune Quotes By Shelly Crane

I sighed and rolled over, opening my arm to her. She put her cheek to my chest and I figured it was an opportune time to touch her since she was asking for it. I let my hand pull her closer and rubbed her arm. She was asleep in no time. My shoulder ached to lay on it, but I wasn't about to move for anything in this world. I — Shelly Crane

Opportune Quotes By Courtney Cole

Sometimes, at the least opportune times, the past is an insomniac, alive and well. — Courtney Cole

Opportune Quotes By David Ben-Gurion

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war. — David Ben-Gurion

Opportune Quotes By Pope John Paul II

If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune legislative measures - to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured. — Pope John Paul II

Opportune Quotes By Anonymous

Yep." There was no shame in his answer. "My ego really couldn't handle having a misfire right now." "As opposed some other, more opportune time?" He laughed and pulled her jacket open. The zipper made a rasping sound as he slid it open, revealing the concave hollow of her belly beneath the same tan t-shirt he wore. "There really isn't a good time for that," he said. — Anonymous

Opportune Quotes By Joseph J. Ellis

But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton's incredibly energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce at the most opportune moment perhaps the most creative liability in American history. — Joseph J. Ellis

Opportune Quotes By Terry Pratchett

I kill in my own time," he said. "In any case, killing unconscious people isn't right."
"I can't think of a more opportune time," said the Loremaster. — Terry Pratchett

Opportune Quotes By Brian Roberts

We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete. — Brian Roberts

Opportune Quotes By Kristine K. Stevens

In a tree-shaded pasture, seventeen adult tortoises randomly stood around. As I fed them spinach leaves sold by an opportune vendor, they tolerated my gentle strokes to their boney skullcaps and the warm black skin on their necks. It was as thin and delicate as the skin on a grandmother's hand. Their obsidian black eyes gleamed with deep wisdom and patience - Dalai Lamas on the half shell. Back — Kristine K. Stevens

Opportune Quotes By Pearl S. Buck

Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been. — Pearl S. Buck

Opportune Quotes By Jonathan Schell

Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in a single multiform cause, and they will gain strength by knowing it, taking encouragement from it, and when appropriate and opportune, pooling their efforts. — Jonathan Schell