Opportunityand Quotes & Sayings

She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to the printed page; she had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own heart and the agitations of the world. For this reason she was fond of seeing great crowds and large stretches of country, of reading about revolutions and wars, of looking at historical pictures ... — Henry James

Scratching could not make it worse ... such a face as yours. — William Shakespeare

If you wait, you grow old, nothing more. — Walter Bargen

Talent and success are cousins;
genius and excellence are twins. — Matshona Dhliwayo

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues. — Robin Yount

The Unites States is the largest developed country. Canada enjoys a flourishing economy and advanced technology. Mexico is an important developing country. China attaches great importance to the friendly cooperation with the three countries,. — Li Zhaoxing

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Few secrets can escape an investigator who has opportunityand liceense to undertake such a quest and skill to follow it up. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions. — F. Sionil Jose

If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing questions larger than self ... I have seen that ennobling effect in people many, many times- expressed by those who found themselves engaged in genuine acts of democratic expression, who claimed their right to define the larger destiny of their community, their nations. — William Greider

I'm never going to run this again. — Grete Waitz

The older you get, the deadlier you have to be and you use age to your advantage. You make it a strenght. Most of us are more dangerous the longer we live. If we didn't care about dying when we were young, we're not going to be too concerned about it when we have two feet in our grave. — Lorenzo Carcaterra

Walking along beside him that night, along that rutted road, through that empty world - what a sweet strength I felt, in him, and in myself, and all around us. — Marilynne Robinson

She had ridden that kiss better than she had ever ridden a surfboard. It didn't matter if Russell was clueless about surfing. He certainly knew a thing or two about kissing. — Penelope Marzec

But there is always a point where things can no longer be put off, where you can't be weak one more day and promise yourself that tomorrow, tomorrow you will start that other life. — Jo Nesbo

at rude variance with the poverty of its surroundings. — Dennis Carey