opportunity quotes
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
Opportunity makes a thief.
OG = PLR ¿ AEB: the opportunity for graft equals the plethora of legal requirementsmultiplied by thenumber of architects, engineers and builders.
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you. I almost feel as if you ought to be grateful to me, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity For anything I can tell, I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness.
Thou strong seducer, opportunity!
It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can afford all kinds.
Equality of opportunity does not mean equality of responsibility.
Conservative ideal of freedom and progress: everyone to have an unfettered opportunity of remaining exactly where they are.
I hopeto build a society of opportunity. By opportunity,Imeananopensocietya society inwhich what people fulfil will depend upon their talent, their application, and their good fortune.What people achieve should depend particularly on those things, and Ihope increasingly inthefuturethatthat will bethe case.
The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.
All method is imperfect. Error is all around it, and at the least opportunity invades it But what can we do? There is no other way.
Know thine opportunity.
I stand for the square dealnot merely for fair play under thepresent rules of thegame, but for having those rules changed, so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunityand of reward for equally good service.
Seldom is it given to one generation to have such an opportunity to rise again, but now before you is that opportunity in televisiona larger, richer, broader opportunity than ever existed in radio.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
[Lord Rosebery] was a man who never missed an occasion to let slip an opportunity.
We will do our best to reward your faith in us, but please give us the opportunity to serve our country, that is all we ask.
What a marvellous opportunity for attacking the devil!
Youare bornwithtwothings: existenceand opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.
The eyes ofall England are onthis Parliament.If youdoin good earnest wish to see England hold the balance of Europe and to be indeed at the head of the Protestant interest, it will appear by your right improving the present opportunity.
The feelings withwhichwe facethisnewage of right and opportunity sweep across our heartstrings like some air out of God's own presence, where justice and mercyare reconciled, and the judge and the brother are one.
Human rights, national integrity, and opportunity as against material interestsare the issues that we now must face. I take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest.
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