Opportunity Quotes

1. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

2. “If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.”

3. “Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”

4. “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”

5. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

6. “Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

7. “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

8. “The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.”

9. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

10. “Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”

11. “Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.”

12. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

13. “Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.”

14. “I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.”

15. “Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.”

16. “Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”

17. “The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”

18. “Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.”

19. “Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.”

20. “Ability is nothing without opportunity.”

21. “Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.”

22. “All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”

23. “One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”

24. “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”

25. “Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.”

26. “Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”

27. “A holiday is an opportunity to journey within. It is also a chance to chill, to relax. It is when I switch on my rest mode.”

28. “There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.”

29. “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”

30. “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

31. “Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.”

32. “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”

33. “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”

34. “Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.”

35. “So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.”

36. “The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.”

37. “Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.”

38. “May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”

39. “Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”

40. “If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.”

41. “The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.”

42. “You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.”

43. “Opportunity makes a thief.”

44. “Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.”

45. “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.”

46. “Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.”

47. “Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.”

48. “Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.”

49. “When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.”

50. “When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”

51. “Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.”

52. “For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”

53. “Change brings opportunity.”

54. “Absolutely, I think every day is a new day, every day is a new opportunity, and every day is a new chance.”

55. “An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.”

56. “Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.”

57. “People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.”

58. “Every day provides a new opportunity to get even better. Basically, it's a matter of mentality.”

59. “Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.”

60. “Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.”

61. “I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”

62. “Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.”

63. “Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.”

64. “I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.”

65. “Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.”

66. “Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”

67. “So if people have an opportunity for a decent job, a decent education, a decent health care system and security, I know that forceful migration will be reduced to zero.”

68. “Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.”

69. “Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.”

70. “To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”

71. “I was extremely honoured and privileged to have had the opportunity to visit Oxford University. It was a great experience to share personal anecdotes from my career and my journey and to indulge in a fun interactive session with the students there.”

72. “Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.”

73. “I had an opportunity to meet Elvis, only once. It was at the MGM Grand. It was certainly not at the height of his career. No, it wasn't at the height of his career, but it was still a thrill to see him and meet him anyway. You know?”

74. “Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.”

75. “There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.”

76. “Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.”

77. “It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.”

78. “Once you put everything in the right perspective, even bad times can be an opportunity to refresh your appetite, your desire.”

79. “Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”

80. “A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.”

81. “I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.”

82. “Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.”

83. “People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.”

84. “I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.”

85. “Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers' grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation's character.”

86. “Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better.”

87. “Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.”

88. “As leaders, it is incumbent on all of us to make sure we are building a world in which every individual has an opportunity to thrive. Understanding what AI can do and how it fits into your strategy is the beginning, not the end, of that process.”

89. “A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.”

90. “Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers 'everyone' an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection.”

91. “Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.”

92. “I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.”

93. “We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.”

94. “If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”

95. “The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.”

96. “I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.”

97. “Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.”

98. “What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.”

99. “The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others.”

100. “Maybe it was the challenge of flight, the opportunity to fly, the competition of summer camp and the inspiration and discipline of West Point. I think all of those things helped me to develop a dedication and inspired me to get ahead.”

101. “It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.”

102. “If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.”

103. “The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.”

104. “Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.”

105. “They missed a great opportunity to shut up.”

106. “Opportunity knocks at any time in life and everybody should answer that door when it does. Go for it!”

107. “Man's extremity is God's opportunity.”

108. “The one thing I have never been afraid of is standing before important people and speaking my mind. I represent women who may never have the opportunity to go to the UN or meet with a president. I'm never afraid to speak truth to power.”

109. “The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.”

110. “Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.”

111. “If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.”

112. “If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.”

113. “Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.”

114. “When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.”

115. “It's an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I'm really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.”

116. “The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.”

117. “I speak not for myself but for those without voice… those who have fought for their rights… their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.”

118. “As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.”

119. “Everyone has something to contribute to this world. It's just a matter of being given that opportunity to do so.”

120. “We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.”

121. “I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination.”

122. “Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”

123. “I think, more than anything, Bitcoin presents an opportunity.”

124. “What's important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.”

125. “The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.”

126. “Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.”

127. “Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.”

128. “Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.”

129. “Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.”

130. “The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.”

131. “Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.”

132. “Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.”

133. “Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.”

134. “I just try to stay in my little circle. And I don't try to do too much. And when my opportunity comes, I just try to make the most of it.”

135. “The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.”

136. “Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.”

137. “Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.”

138. “It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.”

139. “Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”

140. “I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.”

141. “It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.”

142. “Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.”

143. “I want to make sure every child has the opportunity for quality education.”

144. “We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.”

145. “Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.”

146. “I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play for and work under the best, Pat Summitt.”

147. “Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.”

148. “Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.”

149. “It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.”

150. “Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.”

151. “I feel like it's important for me to expand, to create my own label. With a label, I can just give someone the opportunity that I was given, you know? That's what it's all about, just helping.”

152. “Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.”

153. “Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.”

154. “As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.”

155. “There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.”

156. “The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.”

157. “Every opportunity that comes your way, you can't take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can't be such an elitist, to say no, that's not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.”

158. “Every twist and turn in life is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself, your interests, your talents, and how to set and then achieve goals.”

159. “Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.”

160. “When I wrote 'East,' I wanted a completely earthy, very sexy, very violent play, so I wrote in verse. I found it not only satisfying but releasing. It gave me an opportunity to play with language. We never played the characters like the yobs that they are, but rather in a slightly heightened way.”

161. “Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.”

162. “From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or opportunity from multiple angles; help you balance the tug of the short-term with important long-term priorities; and ask the tough questions you need to know to reach the best solution.”

163. “You think about the Bahamas, you think it's this island full of beaches and chilling on the beach, but there's a lot of freak athletes down there that can play, and a lot of guys better than me who I feel like didn't get an opportunity like me, but when I got my opportunity, I took full advantage of it.”

164. “Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.”

165. “All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.”

166. “In a patriarchal society like ours, women have to fight hard for a seat at the table. Boys are privileged over girls from birth. Equal opportunity and access for both girls and boys must become the norm.”

167. “We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.”

168. “If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?”

169. “Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”

170. “We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.”

171. “Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it's my form of political activism, but it's also a huge business opportunity.”

172. “Equity means equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity. It is the very DNA of Marxism and everything bad flows from it, as we saw in the Soviet Union, Mao's China, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela.”

173. “Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.”

174. “Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.”

175. “Golf is a game with morals. There's always an opportunity to be a scoundrel. That's why it's a gentleman's game.”

176. “That's one of the best things about my job. I've had the opportunity to really talk to and meet some really fascinating, weird people.”

177. “I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.”

178. “The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.”

179. “I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I've made the decision I don't view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path.”

180. “That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.”

181. “I am deeply honored by the opportunity to lead Intel. We have amazing assets, tremendous talent, and an unmatched legacy of innovation and execution. I look forward to working with our leadership team and employees worldwide to continue our proud legacy while moving even faster into ultra-mobility to lead Intel into the next era.”

182. “Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important.”

183. “Everything you can learn from is an opportunity to become stronger.”

184. “Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.”

185. “There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.”

186. “I don't feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.”

187. “Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.”

188. “Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.”

189. “I am really excited and thankful for opportunity to work with Cotto Promotions, Tidal and Roc Nation.”

190. “Whenever you take it into overtime, you give yourself an opportunity.”

191. “Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.”

192. “I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the 'Hannah Montana' movie that will be out in the spring.”

193. “Don't hope someone gives you an opportunity: create one for yourself.”

194. “Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.”

195. “The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more.”

196. “Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.”

197. “I hope that everyone has the opportunity, whatever their work environment may be, to be surrounded by people that they respect and are inspired by.”

198. “Don't seek opportunity. Seek God and opportunity will seek you.”

199. “Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.”

200. “If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.”

201. “Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.”

202. “The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.”

203. “What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.”

204. “Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.”

205. “If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.”

206. “Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.”

207. “At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him about crimes against humanity. Al Jazeera is giving me the opportunity to tell important stories and stories that I want to tell.”

208. “I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.”

209. “The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”

210. “The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”

211. “As trust in institutions erodes, the basic assumptions of fairness, shared values, and equal opportunity traditionally upheld by 'the system' are no longer taken for granted.”

212. “I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.”

213. “For goalkeepers, confidence comes from games and minutes. So whenever someone gives you an opportunity or shows faith in you, it always gives you a boost.”

214. “Sometimes you don't get in through the front door. Sometimes you don't get in through the back. Sometimes you got to climb through the window. That doesn't mean the opportunity wasn't there. There's a way; you've just got to find it.”

215. “I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.”

216. “Moving to 100 percent renewable energy is a good economic opportunity, one that the U.S. must seize before other nations take full advantage of it.”

217. “The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.”

218. “It's all about hustling, whether it's in Boston or the film industry. I've been hustling my entire life - acting my way into trouble and acting my way back out again. I'm just fortunate to have had the opportunity to apply it in a different direction.”

219. “Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.”

220. “It's very, very humbling, and I couldn't be more honored to have the opportunity to run with, and serve with, the next president of the United States.”

221. “The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.”

222. “Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”

223. “When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.”

224. “I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.”

225. “I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let's you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, 'Well, put your hand over here.'”

226. “We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.”

227. “Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.”

228. “Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life - like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth - they all have big opportunity costs.”

229. “Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.”

230. “I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.”

231. “The thing that really draws me and excited me about the future is the opportunity to be a part of kindling America's passion for aerospace and space.”

232. “I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?”

233. “Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.”

234. “The greatest are an inspiration for all the kids who wake up early in the morning. Everyone watches you, is inspired by you and wants to be you. So you influence society. That's what being more than an athlete means. I want more kids to have that opportunity. I want everybody to start with the same chance.”

235. “There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth… It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.”

236. “Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot. You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.”

237. “I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.”

238. “We want kids to have an opportunity for free play. Roblox allows them to get together, make their own rules, go together wherever they might want.”

239. “The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.”

240. “Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.”

241. “If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.”

242. “What's happening in crypto - and certainly what's happening at Ripple - we have an opportunity to fundamentally change the way global commerce is managed from a payments point of view.”

243. “Vision 2030 is about a lot of big opportunities, so Aramco is one of them, Neom another opportunity.”

244. “If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.”

245. “Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.”

246. “I suppose any person who's played somewhere for a certain amount of time and then has the opportunity to go back and just reminisce a little bit, maybe it holds a different feeling than some of the other places.”

247. “I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.”

248. “If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there. And, know that you aren't the only immigrant or the last to come to this country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible.”

249. “To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.”

250. “I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.”

251. “If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.”

252. “I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.”

253. “One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.”

254. “Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.”

255. “At Coinbase, our mission is to create an open financial system for the world. We believe that open protocols for money will create more innovation, economic freedom, and equality of opportunity in the world, just like the Internet did for publishing information.”

256. “If one's man's trash is another man's treasure, then one industry's potential failure is another's opportunity.”

257. “Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.”

258. “I think every opportunity, every disappointment, every rejection, every accolade… everything has contributed in shaping my character and my choices and who I have become.”

259. “Being Latino and being an actor has been a unique struggle and opportunity. When you don't fit into what may be a more stereotypical vision of somebody whose name is Pedro is, it can be a little bit harder to navigate.”

260. “The results of inequity and bias impact everything from suspension rates, to housing access, to health outcomes, to medical interventions, to job opportunity and promotions, to criminal sentencing, and even to the very safety of the water one drinks and air one breathes.”

261. “When I was around 16 or 17, I got asked to model, but because I was very 'tomboy' at the time, I wasn't interested. But then I had a bit of teenage rebellion, and I saw modeling as an opportunity to get away from school and parents, so I thought, 'OK, maybe I will be a model.'”

262. “In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.”

263. “I am very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to so many amazing destinations for work!”

264. “If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.”

265. “Every opportunity that presents itself, my main objective is to conquer and be victorious.”

266. “Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.”

267. “The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.”

268. “With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.”

269. “I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.”

270. “If you have an opportunity to help others or incite change, it feels like a moral obligation to do so.”

271. “Every moment contains an opportunity to create feelings of satisfaction and excitement in a customer. It's up to retailers to make it happen.”

272. “If children who commit crimes are not given the opportunity of a second chance, they may die in prison for acts made before having developed the cognitive and emotional skills needed to make informed and smart decisions and choices.”

273. “If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn't have time to do.”

274. “Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.”

275. “I'm so proud to be an Asian and just knowing that if we think of something, we're gonna have the opportunity to be the best version of ourselves and be the best.”

276. “Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.”

277. “A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.”

278. “Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.”

279. “It is true that too many people are not getting a fair opportunity to get ahead. We must find ways to help them move up the economic ladder, and everyone - business, government, and nonprofits - needs to play a role.”

280. “Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.”

281. “The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.”

282. “So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.”

283. “Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life.”

284. “We see incredible opportunity to solve some of the biggest social challenges we have by combining high-performance computing and AI - such as climate change and more.”

285. “I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.”

286. “The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.”

287. “Time is a finite resource that you can't get back. I have the same 24 hours you have, and you get the same 24 hours as me. As you rise, so does you chance for opportunity.”

288. “Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.”

289. “Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”

290. “President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.”

291. “Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”

292. “Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies - the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity.”

293. “Always be prepared. You never know when an opportunity will pop up.”

294. “My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.”

295. “Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.”

296. “With fame comes opportunity, but in my opinion, it also includes responsibility - to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings and, if I'm lucky enough, then to inspire.”

297. “Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we're from or what we look like or who we love.”

298. “If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.”

299. “I think the most important thing… is leadership. It's something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time, not because we don't want to but because of what society has labeled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we should be given every opportunity.”

300. “Remember: when you knock on the door of Opportunity, it is Work who answers!”

301. “Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.”

302. “Blessed be God, that we live in these latter times - the latter times of the reign of darkness and imposture. Great is our privilege, precious our opportunity, to cooperate with the Saviour in the blessed work of enlarging and establishing his kingdom throughout the world.”

303. “One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.”

304. “All you can dream for is opportunity, and I've been very fortunate to have that over the years. That's all thanks to some great people.”

305. “Adversity is an opportunity for growth. And an opportunity to really know who your friends are.”

306. “I get up every morning and thank God for giving me the opportunity to play football.”

307. “The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith.”

308. “Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.”

309. “Sometimes we pray in our heads and we never get a real opportunity to solidify what it is that we're praying for or what we're praying about. So once you write it down, it's like a flow. It comes out and you solidify the thought or the idea or the request.”

310. “Our past can be an opportunity to learn to feel happy, to feel joy, to feel power, to feel passion in your life.”

311. “We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.”

312. “It's an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan.”

313. “I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity… I believe in taking chances and living your life.”

314. “I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.”

315. “Afghanistan's geographical location gives it the opportunity to become one of the biggest transit routes in the region. It can connect Southern, Eastern and Central Asia to the Middle East.”

316. “God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.”

317. “I'm so proud to represent my country at a World Cup because lots of players don't ever get that opportunity, including our manager, Phil Neville. He's reminded us of all the hard work he put in to try and get there, only for him to never make it past the last hurdle.”

318. “My prayer for you, Donald Trump, would be for you to have an opportunity to experience the delight and the joy of what oneness truly is. And if you can have that in your life, if you could feel that feeling in your life, then my prayer would be that your division and your separation, your attack, would dissolve with that boundary.”

319. “You see opportunity… Opportunity is like a window: every once in a while, it opens, if you're ready for that opportunity. So be prepared, work hard, and follow your dreams.”

320. “The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.”

321. “Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this community's many contributions and to celebrate its bright future.”

322. “I don't play ball because I want attention. I do it because it gives me the opportunity to bust somebody's head. And I just love to do it. I love what I do.”

323. “Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.”

324. “The global commitment for the Sustainable Development Goals offers a profound opportunity to tackle the structural, social, and economic changes needed to end AIDS.”

325. “Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.”

326. “We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.”

327. “What people want is their basic needs. So I'm trying to help people ensure their basic need: that means food security, healthcare, education, and job opportunity and a better life.”

328. “Being in the Olympics isn't the chance for one of us to go out there and win the thing… It's growing skateboarding, creating more opportunity for kids to be able to fulfill their dreams of being a pro-skater.”

329. “If you continue to plow ahead in something that is OK, you will miss the opportunity to do something that is great.”

330. “The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.”

331. “Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.”

332. “A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.”

333. “Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.”

334. “Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.”

335. “When you come to Denmark, you have the chance to live in a free, peaceful country with access to free education, free medical aid and the opportunity to work. To benefit from that requires responsibility. If you don't assume that responsibility, it is a breach in trust.”

336. “Being a part of 'Empire' was a wonderful experience and opportunity to work with everyone involved.”

337. “Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.”

338. “Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.”

339. “While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.”

340. “Our Constitution requires that the accused be presumed innocent before trial, thus granting all citizens the right to a bail hearing, where the accused has the opportunity to be represented by counsel, present evidence, and cross-examine witnesses.”

341. “We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons.”

342. “Manny Smith & Interscope CEO John Janick understand me and my vision for myself and also my label. Interscope gave me the opportunity to take over the game completely, and that's what I'm going to do.”

343. “I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.”

344. “I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!”

345. “I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.”

346. “I think all children love art, but not all get the opportunity to do it.”

347. “I have known Senator Rubio for a number of years, and he is an inspiring, courageous, and bold leader who embodies the American dream of freedom and equal opportunity for all.”

348. “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.”

349. “Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.”

350. “Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.”

351. “Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.”

352. “I truly just want to be happy and continue to work hard; I love life and every opportunity presented.”

353. “The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.”

354. “I… now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.”

355. “We aspire to be a government for all New Zealanders and one that will seize the opportunity to build a fairer, better New Zealand.”

356. “No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.”

357. “I really feel blessed to be in a position I am, to even have an opportunity to play in the league.”

358. “When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.”

359. “The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”

360. “I never had the opportunity to run up and hug my mom and tell her 'I love you,' and she tells me she loves me and hugs me back. I would want her to come to my fights and support me, but it never would happen.”

361. “All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.”

362. “It is on us to support our children and early childhood educators as we work toward having a healthier and better educated state where people have the opportunity to live a more abundant and purposeful life.”

363. “My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.”

364. “Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.”

365. “Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.”

366. “My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.”

367. “It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.”

368. “One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.”

369. “Convergence and the blurring of lines across industries creates the opportunity for women to really excel.”

370. “If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.”

371. “Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'”

372. “The opportunity to step away from everything and take a break is something that shouldn't be squandered.”

373. “Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.”

374. “I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.”

375. “We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.”

376. “Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.”

377. “Life can be a lot broader… when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.”

378. “Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity.”

379. “I have had this opportunity to go on a journey and experience the ride of racing cars, of different championships around the world, go-karts, F3, F4, and now F1. It's been so amazing to be able to experience that. There have been bad days, good days, and it's been a great ride.”

380. “America is another name for opportunity.”

381. “Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.”

382. “My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.”

383. “I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.”

384. “High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.”

385. “At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.”

386. “Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.”

387. “One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.”

388. “Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their hospitals, and their places of worship. For, as they must bear the burdens of our mistakes, so are they in their innocence the repositories of our hopes for the upward progress of humanity.”

389. “At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.”

390. “'The Firebird' just symbolizes a lot for me and my career. It was one of the first really big principal roles that I was ever given an opportunity to dance with American Ballet Theatre, and it was a huge step for the African-American community, I think, within the classical ballet world.”

391. “Jackie was speaking at a drugstore, and I said, 'I'm not going to get this opportunity again, so I better take my chances and listen to Jackie Robinson now.' Little did I know, I got front row seats, and next to me was my father.”

392. “Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.”

393. “Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.”

394. “Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.”

395. “I am thrilled to be joining 'CBS News' and to have the opportunity to collaborate with some of our profession's most talented journalists.”

396. “Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.”

397. “I want my music to be everywhere, I want it to be heard. I want to give people an opportunity to enjoy my music, and maybe even hear about this beautiful truth that's in it.”

398. “In any field, when an opportunity arises, one mustn't let it go.”

399. “I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.”

400. “I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all.”

401. “Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.”

402. “To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.”

403. “I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!”

404. “America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.”

405. “My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.”

406. “The closer we get to achieving equality of opportunity between the sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next major obstacle to improving the well-being of most men and women is the growing socioeconomic inequality within each sex.”

407. “Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.”

408. “Belize is so raw and so clear and so in-your-face. There's an opportunity to see something about human nature that you can't really see in a politer society, because the purpose of society is to mask ourselves from each other.”

409. “I was thrust into the spotlight and didn't really know what I was doing. The opportunity was amazing but I wasn't ready for any of it.”

410. “Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.”

411. “In well-functioning markets, price equals opportunity cost. Meaning that the proper way to price out and charge us for things is to charge us what those resources could otherwise have produced. This is a lesson the Soviet Union never learned at all, and the rest is history.”

412. “I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.”

413. “Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.”

414. “'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.”

415. “In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue.”

416. “A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.”

417. “You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.”

418. “The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.”

419. “With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.”

420. “We need to get away from the politics of grievance and towards the politics of opportunity.”

421. “I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.”

422. “Living a frugal lifestyle gives you the opportunity to invest more money towards your future.”

423. “It is such a great opportunity to be the face of a brand which I remember wearing as a little kid and running around in half-naked. Bonds is now getting very serious about fitness, and their range is amazing. It's beautiful and comfy.”

424. “Growing up in the rural south, my family didn't look like our neighbors, and we didn't have much. There were times that were tough, but we had each other, and we had the opportunity to do anything, to be anything, as long as we were willing to work for it.”

425. “My concern is not for the judicial system, but for the reality that the shark fin mafia of Costa Rica has a price on my head, and a Costa Rican prison would provide an excellent opportunity for someone to exercise this lethal contract against me.”

426. “Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.”

427. “Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.”

428. “The reality is the world's shifted; the world's evolved. We now measure ourself by total device space. We have a much bigger opportunity than we've ever had in the past to grow our business, but we have to rethink how we look at our business.”

429. “People might think I am hypocritical because clearly my batting gave me an opportunity, certainly in the one-day team. I still always placed most importance on my wicketkeeping.”

430. “The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.”

431. “I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and think like a filmmaker as I'm buzzing about the world and then see an opportunity to make a film, and then make it happen.”

432. “If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.”

433. “I've spent half my life in gyms, if not more, and I love physical fitness and health; couple that with the fact that I love for people to be healthy, whether it's mentally, physically, or emotionally, and it's just a great opportunity for me to do something I love and have an impact on people's health.”

434. “That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.”

435. “My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it's a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity.”

436. “I'm a trumpet player, so I always carry a pocket trumpet in case there's an opportunity to jam with the locals. I was in Guadeloupe last year filming 'Death in Paradise,' and I played all over the island and had the best time.”

437. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

438. “Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be… well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.”

439. “Everyone deserves the opportunity to fight for the part they want.”

440. “We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.”

441. “Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.”

442. “If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.”

443. “Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.”

444. “Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”

445. “I've tasted the dirt side. I've tasted being broke. I've been in the dumps, I've lived in motels as a kid. I want a different opportunity for my children. I never want them to see those things.”

446. “We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.”

447. “There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic status, do not have the opportunity to attend a good school that will prepare them for life's challenges.”

448. “Makeup is malleable and mercurial: The biggest joy I have every day is the opportunity to create, to play, and to invent with something I've loved forever.”

449. “Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.”

450. “Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”

451. “I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.”

452. “Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.”

453. “I am very, very conscious of time. I always wear two watches. People ask me, 'Why do you do that?' Because I was late once,and it cost me a huge opportunity.”

454. “To all my young fans out there, I ask that you no longer consider me a role model. See me as an individual who had the opportunity to be a role model but blew it. Blew it with irresponsible, irrational, immature decisions.”

455. “In my view, the biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital. Not only is the mere drop in stock prices not risk, but it is an opportunity. Where else do you look for cheap stocks?”

456. “The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.”

457. “Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.”

458. “Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.”

459. “Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.”

460. “There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.”

461. “Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.”

462. “There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.”

463. “I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.”

464. “If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others.”

465. “France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.”

466. “The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.”

467. “It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”

468. “The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.”

469. “I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater - but I wasn't sure if the opportunity would ever present itself. Not only was this acting for the screen, this was acting in 'The Hunger Games!' I knew that I had to give this audition my all.”

470. “You talk about Shaq, I would put Tim Duncan in that same category. Mr. Fundamental, just kept things simple. He is a great teammate, a great player, and a great person. When you have those ingredients in a champion, you just want to be a part of that and have an opportunity to play with him.”

471. “Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.”

472. “I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.”

473. “To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.”

474. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”

475. “We provide our citizens upward mobility through economic opportunity.”

476. “When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.”

477. “Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.”

478. “The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.”

479. “Live in the moment; make the most of any opportunity that comes your way.”

480. “I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.”

481. “Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.”

482. “When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow.”

483. “A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.”

484. “I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.”

485. “Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.”

486. “The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.”

487. “To me, success is choice and opportunity.”

488. “When you're staring at your phone to navigate and being led places, you do become less aware of your environment, and the journey becomes kind of automated. There is an aliveness that comes with having to puzzle out directions for yourself. And you have to ask other people for help, which creates opportunity for social connection.”

489. “Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?”

490. “For merchants, it is an amazing opportunity. Compared to Paypal, crypto has no credit card fees, no charge backs, no 'Oops, we decided to hold your cash for 3-12 months while we investigate something we can't disclose.'”

491. “For me, I really enjoy telling stories and helping the younger generation, young actors to have the same opportunity I did.”

492. “If we see an opportunity in the software/hardware seam, we're going to take it.”

493. “For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to seek.”

494. “The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.”

495. “There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.”

496. “The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.”

497. “An unsolicited sales pitch may be part of a fraudulent investment scheme. Exercise extreme caution if you receive an unsolicited communication - meaning you didn't ask for it and don't know the sender - about an investment opportunity.”

498. “The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.”

499. “Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.”

500. “I cycled on a crew assignment as the backup commander on Apollo 16 and would have flown Apollo 19 on a return mission to the moon. However, the last few missions of the Apollo Program were canceled for budgetary reasons. So I lost my second opportunity to land on the moon.”

501. “I never let anyone lose their self-respect and make them wait in my office, or hurt them with my words, thoughts or actions. I give my e-mail address to anyone who seeks me out. I ask them to send me their work, and if I like it, I give them an opportunity.”

502. “We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.”

503. “Social media has allowed fans and celebrities to really engage and have an organic interaction with each other. Ever since I've had the opportunity to use social media, all the way back to the days of chat rooms, I found I was able to really understand what the fans wanted, communicate with them, and share my lifestyle.”

504. “My career has been defined by dominating every opportunity presented to me. I am excited for my newest opportunity representing WWE 2K17 as the franchise's ambassador and honoured to serve as the WWE 2K17 cover Superstar.”

505. “Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.”

506. “I get very worried that people that are buying bitcoins don't really understand what they're participating in other than the headline stories that it keeps going higher and 'I want to make sure I don't miss this opportunity to make some money.'”

507. “If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.”

508. “I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.”

509. “When I was in the 9th grade I was flunking out of high school. And that's why I'm so encouraged by the fact that America is the place where opportunity and American exceptionalism is alive and well.”

510. “The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.”

511. “When I was three, my parents were told that I would never be able to recover from rheumatoid arthritis. Doctors from the biggest and the best of hospitals had said that the condition would never be cured. But with naturopathy and yoga, I recovered and became a wrestler, and even got the opportunity to represent my country in wrestling.”

512. “Holidays - any holiday - are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.”

513. “When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong dream of winning the World Series. We were fortunate enough to succeed in our first season in 1996, and in the years that followed, we wrote some great new chapters in Yankee history.”

514. “Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.”

515. “I feel blessed that I got an opportunity to work with the likes of A. R. Rahman, Vishal-Shekhar among others.”

516. “The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.”

517. “Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.”

518. “The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.”

519. “I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.”

520. “For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.”

521. “'Twilight' has been a great opportunity, and it's been great fun. Hey, if I'm 50, and someone still wants an autograph for 'Twilight,' OK, cool.”

522. “I studied acting throughout high school, then modelling took over because it brought more opportunity. When I quit modelling, coming back to Vancouver, I registered at the University of Victoria.”

523. “It's a unique fraternity to be a standup. I think everybody understands, you know, opportunity, and everybody - especially at the top - are genuinely rooting for you.”

524. “There was very little opportunity to carry on in Formula 1. My goal was to get on to the starting grid and that didn't look achievable.”

525. “The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.”

526. “I saw Bitcoin as an actual market opportunity: as a trillion-dollar marketplace with long-term potential.”

527. “If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.”

528. “My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity.”

529. “Roosevelt's New Deal regulated business, protected social welfare and promoted national infrastructure on the principle that the role of government was not simply to protect the property of the wealthy, but rather was to promote equality of opportunity for all.”

530. “Pristine vulnerability is just so boring to me. The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowland's in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.”

531. “I went to the Professional Children's School in New York, and I started modeling because I could do that until I actually figured out what I wanted to do, and it gave me the opportunity to travel.”

532. “Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.”

533. “There are many talented and smart kids from underprivileged backgrounds but don't get the same opportunity as a kid that has got parents that are well off.”

534. “We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life. For a decent and humane life, we must also provide an opportunity for good education, remunerative employment, comfortable housing, good clothing, and effective and compassionate medical care.”

535. “Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”

536. “From having no money and coming from a very proud working class family, it was tough. But then all of a sudden we had loads and loads of cash. I realised that this was a great opportunity to do what I love for a living. I was going to tournaments up and down the country and I was able to win anything from five to seven thousand pounds.”

537. “I was living in New York. Sometimes, our gang of musicians would go to Louis Armstrong's home and play records. It was a lesson, like going to school at night. Ella Fitzgerald was an inspiration, too, a unique artist. When you had an opportunity to be with people like them, you cherished it.”

538. “Working on new projects gives you the opportunity to learn and absorb new things.”

539. “I've always wanted to design a Mustang. I just never really had the opportunity in my career because the timing was never right.”

540. “Each bowler has his own pride when bowling in the nets but it's vital that you get ball on bat and then you are ready to use the opportunity when you are out in the middle.”

541. “I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community.”

542. “College allows you to make better decisions, better friends, and a better future. There's only one catch: when the opportunity comes, you actually have to take it.”

543. “Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.”

544. “I would like to be in the playoffs. I would hope that there is some opportunity to go and play in the playoffs. Those are the best games, the most fun for sure, and you have a chance to win.”

545. “A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.”

546. “There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and opportunity.”

547. “'Hamilton' is a story about America, and the most beautiful thing about it is… it's told by such a diverse cast with a such diverse styles of music. We have the opportunity to reclaim a history that some of us don't necessarily think is our own.”

548. “For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.”

549. “The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.”

550. “I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.”

551. “I dedicate much of my success to what I learned inside and outside the classroom at Porter-Gaud, and I want to give that same opportunity to other kids in Charleston.”

552. “I never want my children to ever feel like they need to be a SEAL, or that they need to go into medicine, or be an astronaut in order to please me - because I don't think that's very fair. I just want them to live their own lives. I don't hesitate at every opportunity to remind my children of that.”

553. “Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.”

554. “I enjoyed the theatrics and the physical demands of everything that went on in the ring. But I was, initially, a relatively shy kid. I think that's probably what attracted me to hunting is that it was such a polar opposite of the other, and it was that opportunity for peace and quiet and to decompress.”

555. “For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.”

556. “Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.”

557. “I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.”

558. “I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us.”

559. “We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.”

560. “Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.”

561. “Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.”

562. “Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.”

563. “I'm very thrilled and excited to have been given the opportunity to captain England.”

564. “There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.”

565. “Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.”

566. “In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.”

567. “I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.”

568. “Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.”

569. “This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.”

570. “I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'”

571. “Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.”

572. “God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.”

573. “I look forward to the opportunity to continue to push for the welfare of our students and the dignity of our educators' work in my role as governor.”

574. “Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.”

575. “For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.”

576. “When I did 'Opportunity Knocks' at 14, it was singing in other people's voices. So I'm more comfortable doing that.”

577. “Clean energy is about offering people the opportunity to do what's right for themselves and the people they love. It's about reducing the pollution that makes people sick. It's about helping the low-income families struggling to pay their gas and electricity bills.”

578. “You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.”

579. “Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children.”

580. “People would say it's very improbable that I'd make it to this point in my life. I made it here because I wasn't discouraged. I worked hard to get here, took advantage of every opportunity that I had.”

581. “Fasting, or intermittent fasting, gives us an opportunity to really get all the best cells all the time and that's what we all want.”

582. “One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.”

583. “It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.”

584. “When you give a child the opportunity to learn, they always give back.”

585. “The chaos of two cultures merging is the best time to forge a new identity to unify people, because everyone is looking for answers and everybody's looking for leadership. That's when there's an opportunity to say, 'OK, this is what we stand for.' People aren't set in their ways because everything is up for grabs.”

586. “My first six months were in Japan; then I went to Mexico and then went back to Japan. I had the opportunity to wrestle all the wrestlers from the United States, Europe, and Japan when I was there.”

587. “Certain formats should never be forgotten, 'Blind Date' for instance, because 'Britain's Got Talent' is really 'New Faces' or 'The Gong Show,' whilst we're basically 'Opportunity Knocks.'”

588. “We must remember that although we come from different backgrounds and ideologies, we're all part of this great experiment in self-governance. We're all united by common values of liberty, justice, and equality of opportunity, even if we don't always agree on how to achieve them.”

589. “In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.”

590. “I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.”

591. “I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.”

592. “Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.”

593. “This is a land of immigrants, and most come here for opportunity, a second chance.”

594. “The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.”

595. “Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.”

596. “When we talk about LGBT characters on TV we're talking about the entire rainbow, and that includes trans people, and that includes non-binary people, people of color, women, differently-abled people. There is so much opportunity for storytelling there, and I hope that we continue to see more of that.”

597. “My first professional acting role was a small part in a television series called 'The Wizard.' I later had the opportunity to work on Michael Jackson's Moon-walker music video.”

598. “Find things you're passionate about, and find others who are as passionate as you are and will focus on giving you an opportunity to shine and to have your moment where you can be in front of others to show what you can do.”

599. “This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.”

600. “For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.”

601. “I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother - and as somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot.”

602. “When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.”

603. “There's movies that I would've loved to be in that I just wasn't even considered for because they need a name. And that happens so frequently that, after a while - from a creative standpoint - you just want to be able to have that opportunity to work with the best people. That opportunity is available to you with a certain level of notoriety.”

604. “ISIS did not come down from the sky. They found the opportunity to grow, and the world allowed them to grow.”

605. “You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.”

606. “I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.”

607. “He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.”

608. “As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!”

609. “The extremely wealthy have disproportionate influence on policies that impact us all. This corrupts our politics and leads to poorer people being denied the economic opportunity to flourish in life.”

610. “I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia content.”

611. “Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.”

612. “I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.”

613. “While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream.”

614. “When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.”

615. “I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.”

616. “Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.”

617. “By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.”

618. “Never say never, always try to see if there is an opportunity to go around the problem if you can't go across it.”

619. “This is what a crisis does: It makes you question the status quo. That doesn't mean that after a crisis we move into some kind of utopia. But it is an opportunity for political change.”

620. “Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.”

621. “Our workforce and our entire economy are strongest when we embrace diversity to its fullest, and that means opening doors of opportunity to everyone and recognizing that the American Dream excludes no one.”

622. “I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence. My passion is to serve the public: to be in the arena of public policy, to have the opportunity to solve problems for our country, to be in a position where I can make a difference.”

623. “As a director, just to be able to jump in to do something that's different, and to explore comedy and be challenged by that, is great. Some directors never get that opportunity.”

624. “I had a friend named Vasil Rusev in my rowing classes. I've always liked that name. When I first started in WWE, I had the opportunity to choose a name, and I choose Rusev.”

625. “I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.”

626. “We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.”

627. “I am one who shows great respect and commends the Cuban people for having the guts to go over to Cuba to get Cubans out when they had the opportunity to do it. I think it's a… shame that the Jews here in the United States in the 1930s didn't do the same for other Jews who were also in trouble.”

628. “I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to bring Peter Morgan's Princess Elizabeth to life; she is a gift of a role and a challenge I am so grateful for - a young woman trying to navigate a path through an extraordinary situation.”

629. “I want to give other creatives the opportunity to find the entrepreneur inside themselves and teach them how to build their own platform.”

630. “Open Wings - Broken Strings is an opportunity for you to get to the heart of your favorite artists and their songs in a unique and compelling way. Stripped down, intimate and acoustic, you'll hear the strings on the guitar vibrate and buzz, the vocal chords hum and pulsate as the songs you love come to life like you never knew they could.”

631. “But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.”

632. “I feel blessed to even be able to put out an English album. Not too many Latin artists get the opportunity to come out and record another genre that's so different to Bachata.”

633. “May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!”

634. “The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.”

635. “Everything is an opportunity for me.”

636. “In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.”

637. “I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night.”

638. “When I was a child, I got an opportunity to see all the big players in a cricket match. I was a ball boy outside the boundary line. I picked the ball and waited a bit for Sachin Tendulkar to come near me to give it to him. The sense of being in the same space was special. While thousands were watching, I was close to Sachin.”

639. “The NFL is changing a little bit. The prototypical quarterback seems to be a little bit more mobile now. At the same time, if you can't throw the ball with the best of them, then you won't get an opportunity.”

640. “I'm changing lineups obviously to give everybody their best opportunity to show what they can do. Just giving everybody their fair chance to assess that properly.”

641. “There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.”

642. “Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.”

643. “See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.”

644. “It has nothing to do with money. We don't play for Australia to get paid. We play for the pride of our country and the opportunity to create history and be the best team in the world.”

645. “I was a drama teacher, so I had the opportunity to show off in front of a captive audience. I essentially did 13 years of stand-up. Whether my pupils would agree that I was remotely interesting or not is another question.”

646. “I always wanted to act. I am very passionate about the art. So when I got the opportunity, I was more than happy.”

647. “America stands for the land of opportunity.”

648. “The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.”

649. “Every breakthrough business idea begins with solving a common problem. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. I discovered a big one when I took apart an IBM PC. I made two interesting discoveries: The components were all manufactured by other companies, and the system that retailed for $3,000 cost about $600 in parts.”

650. “We talk about women in football like we are not entitled to the same opportunity and the same access.”

651. “People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say, 'We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.'”

652. “I'd like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to sing with the greatest group in the world.”

653. “You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.”

654. “Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.”

655. “The Labour party is the greatest champion of equality and opportunity this country has even known.”

656. “Not everyone is granted the opportunity that each of us deserves: to fulfill our God-given potential.”

657. “Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.”

658. “Sorrow ages you prematurely. When you're in emotional debt, you're pessimistic about the future and, even in your green years, long to return to the past to remedy the shortfalls of love and opportunity you suffered.”

659. “No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.”

660. “Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it.”

661. “I am grateful for the willingness of both Jurgen Klinsmann and Everton manager Roberto Martinez to afford me the opportunity to spend time with my kids.”

662. “Bringing humor and bringing happiness and joy to an audience is a wonderful opportunity in life, believe me.”

663. “Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.”

664. “The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.”

665. “I guess, in a sense, 'Audition' was a film that gave me an opportunity that I hadn't had up until that point. So that's definitely one that is important to me. Then there's 'Visitor Q' that kind of taught me that there are some kinds of films that can only be made as low-budget films that really wouldn't work as anything else.”

666. “A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.”

667. “People want to create a space that feels like them - one that's deeply rooted in their personality. That's important. Your space is an opportunity to tell your story and showcase your experiences. That's why I think every material - down to your faucet - needs to serve a function and feel personal.”

668. “You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.”

669. “That's where the theatre of dreams is, over in L.A.; it's the land of opportunity for actors, and to go over there with a good team behind you and have a part you want to audition for really makes it a joy.”

670. “We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.”

671. “The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there. So you do have to be resourceful and be able to flex your muscles artistically.”

672. “When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.”

673. “The Trevor Project is committed to providing all young people, regardless of sexual identity, the opportunity to be heard and the encouragement to be themselves.”

674. “Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time.”

675. “I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.”

676. “A lot of times in television, you don't get the opportunity to show real life because we're brainwashed to believe the propaganda that these things aren't marketable, that these things don't sell.”

677. “Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.”

678. “You certainly know when you have an opportunity, and you want to take advantage of it. And it's certainly disappointing when you don't.”

679. “Modeling was a great opportunity to travel, to make some money in high school and it was the gateway to prepare me for getting comfortable in front of the camera.”

680. “When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.”

681. “The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.”

682. “Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.”

683. “Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.”

684. “I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science, but they never really got the opportunity?”

685. “Tottenham is the club that first gave me my opportunity to play in one of the strongest leagues in the world.”

686. “As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.”

687. “'Wolf of Wall Street' opened up a lot of doors for me. It was such a massive opportunity, which provided me with only more opportunities.”

688. “Crisis creates opportunity.”

689. “It is obvious, our country has failed to provide two basic things which are the two main drivers of immigration, which are the lack of economic opportunity and a lack of security.”

690. “Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.”

691. “There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting.”

692. “After the military, I floundered around between jobs for a while, and there was an opportunity for me to go live in Japan. I was living on the Okinawa Airport Base, off the grid, no real address.”

693. “I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.”

694. “No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”

695. “What I was excited about was the opportunity for punters to be part of politics. The whole idea was to allow the voices of people outside this weirdo palace of Westminster to be heard. I thought the whole social media thing might be really positive.”

696. “I think that the most important thing we look for in partners is that they can help build companies and, you know, we have the - we have the opportunity to do that at different stages.”

697. “If the opportunity came about, I would have no problem taking on The Rock at WrestleMania - sounds like a good time to me.”

698. “I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.”

699. “When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don't have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.”

700. “This pandemic has provided an opportunity to reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems, that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.”

701. “I get particularly depressed by the way teenagers are portrayed in the media. They are massively underestimated. They are bright, intelligent people who are given less and less opportunity. They are an ignored generation.”

702. “It wasn't until many years after 'The Waltons' when I had gone back to theater that I had the opportunity to take on a role within a theater company as a writer and director. I found to my surprise that I really enjoyed it as well.”

703. “For one thing, you have the opportunity in science fiction shows to do things with stories - address issues and ideas - that you can't in any other genre.”

704. “You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.”

705. “It is an honor to open in New York City and to have the opportunity to serve and share our family's version of American Chinese food and hospitality. New York City deeply influenced my passion for food and service, and it feels good to be back.”

706. “I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.”

707. “I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.”

708. “This healthy eating stuff, it's here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.”

709. “The more you see, the more you're going to learn. Just got to take advantage of the opportunity and get ready to play ball.”

710. “There is far more opportunity than there is ability.”

711. “The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.”

712. “Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.”

713. “The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.”

714. “The American dream comes from opportunity. The opportunity comes from our founding principles, our core values that's held together and protected by the Constitution. Those ideas are neither Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, white, or black. Those are American ideologies.”

715. “I always do the very best I can, and I should be given the opportunity and the right to represent my country.”

716. “Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.”

717. “It's funny: there's this idea where Kenny is only good because he can do what he wants, and he gets time. Well, everyone else through those doors had had time and opportunity. Why didn't they do anything special?”

718. “I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.”

719. “The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.”

720. “The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.”

721. “I auditioned for 'Hamilton' and the 'West Side Story' Broadway revival and so many different stage musicals… It was never right, and I think it was just getting me ready for the opportunity of a lifetime, which was to play one of the most iconic musical characters in a Steven Spielberg movie.”

722. “No one gave me an opportunity, which I desperately needed in my struggling days. If there is one thing that I have learned during that period is that you need to create an opportunity yourself if you want to live your dream.”

723. “Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'”

724. “As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.”

725. “I hope I get an opportunity to work with Akshay Kumar and Prabhu Deva, as they are very supportive people.”

726. “I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back.”

727. “Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.”

728. “Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.”

729. “You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.”

730. “Everyone should go up there and fight. Go up there and go through opponents and earn their opportunity to fight for the title, not talk their way into the title.”

731. “This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.”

732. “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?”

733. “I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.”

734. “When an opportunity comes knocking, you don't necessarily have to open your door. But you owe it to yourself to at least look through the keyhole.”

735. “When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.”

736. “I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.”

737. “World Migratory Bird Day is an opportunity to celebrate the great natural wonder of bird migration - but also a reminder that those patterns, and ecosystems worldwide, are threatened by climate change.”

738. “I just go out and try to do my job the best I can. If that's playing defense as hard as I can or if that's taking the opportunity to score I'll do that, but it's all about just winning the game no matter what happens.”

739. “I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”

740. “It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.”

741. “We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.”

742. “Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.”

743. “The resources at Harvard - its professors, our fellow students, the libraries, its alumni - created for me the opportunity to pursue my passions in finance.”

744. “To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.”

745. “Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.”

746. “My view is we need the best environment for businesses to grow. That is the best opportunity to ensure wages can lift, not artificially but sustainably.”

747. “Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.”

748. “I'm at least smart enough to know I could never fill Billy Graham's shoes, but I'm grateful he gave me an opportunity to help him finish his race on earth well and to continue his life's work.”

749. “In my years, I had the opportunity to observe peoples and countries. I see some countries doing well, others failing, and my analysis of things is that whether you fail or succeed is a function of your value system.”

750. “When I've least expected it, an enormous opportunity or stroke of luck has crossed right under my nose. So I tell everybody, if you're passionate about what you do and you love it, do it. But do your homework. Because you'll never know when the opportunity is going to happen.”

751. “I think when you look at a struggle in your life, just know that's just an opportunity for your character to grow.”

752. “The exchange rate of the Rand against the dollar, pound or euro makes South Africa an attractive location. The positive side of this is it gives our artists and technicians an opportunity to work.”

753. “I really looked forward to the opportunity to play for the Timberwolves. I went up there and gave it my all. I fell in love with the city and the people up there, even to the extreme where I met my wife up there.”

754. “I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.'”

755. “Change is an opportunity for everybody to think.”

756. “Not only does work experience provide the opportunity to sample a potential career, but it also builds the essential skills often regarded as 'soft skills' that are needed to thrive in work.”

757. “Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.”

758. “I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.”

759. “Honestly, I'm just trying to do the best I can with every opportunity I'm given, and when I'm given the opportunities make the most of them.”

760. “I'm really excited to be chosen as a VEVO LIFT artist. It's a great opportunity to reach millions more music fans with my sound and let them see the real Rita.”

761. “I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.”

762. “I'm the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it's the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Shipyards, ironworks, get them all jacked up. We're just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks.”

763. “The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.”

764. “Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance.”

765. “Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk to Ali, to get advice from Muhammad Ali, was privileged. He's always given me time to ask questions, although I was so in awe that I didn't ask questions.”

766. “It's in the American spirit to take advantage of an opportunity.”

767. “We feel that, with Sidney, we have a great opportunity over the next few years to put a great team on the ice. We're prepared to lose some money along the way. Eventually we're going to need some help.”

768. “I put my name out there and ran for public service because I want more inclusion, diversity, and opportunity… I will fight for those values.”

769. “We know that almost all Americans are avid consumers of technology, but many lack the opportunity to do the creative work that fuels our digital economy.”

770. “I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.”

771. “I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing film music is the perfect opportunity to do that, because you can look at the film and then just let your imagination soar.”

772. “I have done six films, and so far what I have understood is that if you are not from a film family, you are not going to have everything arranged on a platter for you. You will have to strive for success, strive for every film and fight for another opportunity.”

773. “Rather than make excuses for their failures, resilient people learn from each mistake. They identify skills, ideas, and life lessons that can be gained from each failed opportunity.”

774. “The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.”

775. “There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.”

776. “The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.”

777. “We see China becoming an unstoppable force. It's a huge threat and a huge opportunity.”

778. “The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.”

779. “I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.”

780. “To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.”

781. “I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.”

782. “Mobile gaming is the largest and fastest-growing opportunity for interactive entertainment, and we will have one of the world's most successful mobile game companies and its talented teams providing great content to new customers, in new geographies, throughout the world.”

783. “'The Price Is Right,' it was an honor to be offered it because it's such an American institution. To be able to carry on this tradition with a show that has been on for so long, I thought it was a great opportunity for me.”

784. “Acting has always been a passion of mine, so any opportunity that allows me to do that is definitely of interest to me.”

785. “I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.”

786. “All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.”

787. “Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things they're making.”

788. “Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.”

789. “Compassion, hope, and opportunity are some of the most fundamentally American values that we should fight like hell to protect.”

790. “I would love to have the opportunity to do a play.”

791. “If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.”

792. “The challenge of a revival is how to bring something fresh. The reward is the opportunity to add different flourishes. You're dealing with different actors, designers and a different time.”

793. “We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.”

794. “For a young person, anybody who's sorting out and trying to make a life for himself or herself, to have the opportunity each day to set down - sit down and then set down thoughts, words - it's a crucial, crucial way of staying alive, of not allowing yourself and not allowing the culture outside yourself to totally dominate your life.”

795. “When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.”

796. “What is a superhero? They're supposed to represent hope, opportunity, and strength for everybody.”

797. “In 1984, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to serve as a legislative intern in his office in Washington, D.C. Coming from humble beginnings, the experience changed my life and charted me on a path of public service.”

798. “Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals.”

799. “No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.”

800. “Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal.”

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

802. “At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.”

803. “But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.”

804. “As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.”

805. “I feel like I have this unique opportunity to represent both Korea and the U.S.”

806. “My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.”

807. “If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.”

808. “It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.”

809. “I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.”

810. “When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.”

811. “Princess Diana was an icon and her effect on the world remains profound and inspiring. To explore her through Peter Morgan's writing is the most exceptional opportunity and I will strive to do her justice.”

812. “As legal residents, immigrants would contribute more in taxes, spend more at our businesses, start companies of their own and create more jobs. Immigration is not a problem for us to solve but an opportunity for America to seize.”

813. “Connectivity is important to our state, including the opportunity for our citizens to see our legislative process at work.”

814. “I am super optimistic about the near-term prospects of AI because every time there is a technological disruption, it gives us the opportunity of making the world a little different.”

815. “The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.”

816. “For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an opportunity to have a conversation with God to try to get in tune with what his will is.”

817. “The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators are free to try, fail and then try again.”

818. “We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of life we want to live and the imprint we will leave on others.”

819. “I walk in a space of gratitude. I'm so grateful to God for blessing me with an amazing family and the opportunity to do what I love.”

820. “You never know the opportunity you're going to get, and you're never going to know how good anyone can be without the best opportunities, just as it goes with time.”

821. “Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.”

822. “We have to win everything. The last time we went to South Africa, we had an opportunity to win the series, but things didn't work out.”

823. “I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons.' Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.”

824. “As a Millennial and Gen Z expert at Accenture I had the opportunity to host and lead several workshops and panels with key clients at industry events. The topics ranged from virtual reality to blockchain; artificial intelligence to machine learning.”

825. “We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand.”

826. “Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.”

827. “How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.”

828. “I feel blessed to get the opportunity to have so much work.”

829. “Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.”

830. “And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.”

831. “I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.”

832. “The challenge is to replace our broken higher education system with one that has the potential to transform the lives of individuals and to create opportunity.”

833. “I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.”

834. “But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.”

835. “To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.”

836. “Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.”

837. “If you have the talent, you should have the opportunity.”

838. “I have the opportunity, which most people don't experience nearly as much, of being in front of a mirror up to 10 hours a day. Staring at your body, you really get to know every little detail of how to make yourself look your best.”

839. “The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.”

840. “Advertisers now have a highly targeted opportunity for aligning their brands alongside the entertainment experience people are enjoying on YouTube.”

841. “Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.”

842. “Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.”

843. “The two genres that probably take the most flack in literature - they are young adult and romance right now. I don't think it's a coincidence that these are genres that provide places for women to express desire and love for adventure, for the opportunity to be placed to heroic roles.”

844. “Everyone has a story to tell, and in a perfect world, everyone would get the opportunity to tell it. Some of us have the stories, some of us have the words, and some of us have both. Let's honor the portions we bring to the table and give credit where credit is due.”

845. “Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.”

846. “Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back.”

847. “It is important that women have the opportunity to balance different priorities at different stages in their career.”

848. “You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York… three nights.”

849. “People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.”

850. “I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.”

851. “For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.”

852. “Yes, you have people shouting racist abuse and throwing bananas on the field, and there are issues regarding the number of black coaches and managers in the game, but which other industry allows a young black boy the exact same opportunity as a young white boy?”

853. “I've been blessed in that regard through and through. So I'm just thankful for this opportunity to play the game that I love and share that with the world.”

854. “I am grateful to be here, and I will always be grateful for the opportunity Manchester City gave me.”

855. “American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”

856. “The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.”

857. “Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.”

858. “We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.”

859. “Teaching is really very, very important. I always tell my students that you should find an opportunity to teach. When you teach others, you teach yourself.”

860. “I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.”

861. “I want to say to you Indiana people that I owe you a big, big debt of gratitude because nowhere in the world is a sporting group followed more than this state follows basketball. And I just want to thank you for the opportunity that I had to coach in this state - it will always be something that I will cherish.”

862. “I never want to sell my soul for something I don't believe in. Because guess what? Somebody somewhere in the world would have believed in that part and should be playing it - who am I to not allow that person that opportunity?”

863. “If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you.”

864. “It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.”

865. “I think basketball becomes an outlet for it, an opportunity to get that frustration out and forget about all the problems and things you have going on in your life outside.”

866. “Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately - to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions - is often overpowering.”

867. “The beauty of America is that everyone has the opportunity to build their own American dream.”

868. “Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.”

869. “I will take any opportunity to help others.”

870. “People love our products. They love using our services. All of this, to me, equals great opportunity.”

871. “That's what I love about baseball, that it gives the opportunity for every single guy to develop and play the game. There's not a rule that you have to be 6 foot or you have to be real strong to play baseball or to become a good player.”

872. “I tell my micro students everything I teach them is important, but the truth is that some things are more useful than others, and opportunity cost is near the top.”

873. “Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.”

874. “I am not arguing for a utopian society; equal opportunity for all, though ideal, is unrealistic.”

875. “My voice is a gift. My talent is a gift. The life process is a gift. The opportunity for the journey is a gift.”

876. “Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.”

877. “Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.”

878. “Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.”

879. “Guys always get jealous or envious of an opportunity, but they never wanna walk out to the mound and point to the crowd and tell them where they're going to hit the ball. I will. I'll call my shots.”

880. “Ability is of little account without opportunity.”

881. “As we've seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities - and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.”

882. “I always mention stacking the dishwasher - any opportunity. But it's the consequences - it's the food poisoning and the potential death that will come with not loading the dishwasher properly.”

883. “I do not want to look back in the future and bear the burden of stiffing the American people with a government drunk on overspending when I had the opportunity to stop it.”

884. “More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.”

885. “I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.”

886. “Embrace risk. The driving force behind our economic model at Illumination Mac Guff is designed to preserve the opportunity to take risk. Subvert the expectation of the audience. Surprise them with unexpected choices.”

887. “It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.”

888. “'Deadwood' was just a wonderful opportunity for me. Outside of my own things that I've written, I hadn't had the opportunity to play a character with that amount of depth and range.”

889. “He means as much as Roberto Clemente does to Latin people. Thank God I had the opportunity to know him. I wish my kids had the opportunity to be around him, because that's how I want my kids to live their lives. I want them to be like Stan Musial. Not the baseball player. The person. That's the respect I have for that man.”

890. “Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it is designed to help all types of young men or women who suffer deficiencies of training or opportunity which keep them unemployed.”

891. “If a studio is going to offer me the opportunity to invite my mother and grandmother and all my friends to visit me free of charge in Thailand, I'm going to take that opportunity.”

892. “I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.”

893. “My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.”

894. “As Americans, I think we really believe that with the meritocracy that exists in our country, the equality of opportunity is so important to the foundation of our culture and our society.”

895. “We're in the same company as 2NE1 and we get our songs from the same producers, so the influence is natural. Since they've done a lot of things before us, we want to emulate them. But at the same time, we hope there will soon be an opportunity to show our own unique color. We want to succeed with our own unique color.”

896. “Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.”

897. “Work is spiritual. It is a place where we have the opportunity for spiritual growth. Often, these opportunities come from the 'how' of the ways we do our work rather than the 'what' of the work itself.”

898. “Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.”

899. “We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”

900. “I have a vision for what I want wrestling to be, and I was fortunate not just to have the opportunity to show my talents at the right time, and not just to have the right opponents, and not just to have the knowledge that the front office has faith in me, but also the good fortune not to get hurt in the middle of all this.”

901. “The likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns were true champions. There were some incredible fights between us, and I was happy to give them all an opportunity to fight me.”

902. “I'm really focused on Minnesota and Minnesotans, and I will come to Washington, D.C., prepared to be a fierce advocate for Minnesotans, especially around economic opportunity and fairness.”

903. “I'm glad to be part of an era when we are blessed with the opportunity to inspire and entertain through connectivity.”

904. “Emotionally, light very much influences, I feel, the audience. It's not something that most audience members are conscious of, which is a good thing, because it means as filmmakers, we have the opportunity to gently control an audience into feeling a certain way.”

905. “Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.”

906. “If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.”

907. “'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.”

908. “I clearly saw an opportunity with 'Supernanny' to reach not just one family but lots of people, and to give everyone the benefit of my knowledge and experience.”

909. “If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.”

910. “If I think I will get the ball, I go out. I can't stop halfway because the goal is empty and the player would have the opportunity to shoot. You make the reaction, and then, of course, you have to be sure to get the ball. But it's years of practice. You can't say from one day to the other, 'Now I will do it,' you know? You have to feel it.”

911. “I just want the respect I deserve. Not for what I can do in the future but what I've done in the past. And I just want a fair opportunity, a fair chance, a fair shot to play basketball.”

912. “Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.”

913. “Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.”

914. “Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.”

915. “What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.”

916. “With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.”

917. “Every opportunity I've had to work and act with incredibly talented directors, like Dean Holland was on 'Love,' and the writers and creators of that show, Judd Apatow, Paul Rust and Leslie Arfin, have been incredible learning experiences that have informed my creative process.”

918. “In the future you're going to be able to go into a 7-Eleven and buy a ticket on a game, and people who don't use gambling as often as others do, like the people who go and buy lottery tickets, there's going to be more opportunity for people to do it. And with people casually gambling throughout the country, it's going to generate a lot of money.”

919. “Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.”

920. “It's really about making opportunities for yourself and connecting with people on a more-than-normal level. That opens doors. You never know if the caterer's brother is someone. You don't know who someone is having dinner with that night. So being a nice person and touching people creates opportunity.”

921. “I always wanted to become a good role model for kids as a professional football player. Unfortunately, I didn't attain that through football, but I was smart enough to realize that professional wrestling provided another opportunity for that.”

922. “Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.”

923. “My primary mission as president will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages right here in the United States. From my first day in office to my last, especially in places that for too long have been left out and left behind.”

924. “My mom was really young so we had the opportunity to be really close and go through things together.”

925. “To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.”

926. “It is a golden age of television, with Amazon, Sky, and Netflix. They give opportunities to people to develop their own projects together. So much stuff has to be made. There has to be more opportunity.”

927. “In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.”

928. “I love kids, and I really liked the idea of getting involved with something that was all about giving kids the opportunity to walk, run, or maybe even play soccer someday.”

929. “It's an honor to put on the Habs uniform and hopefully have the opportunity to play here a lot longer now. Now I can just focus on the goal of winning a Stanley Cup and I don't have to worry about re-signing every other year, so I'm looking forward to working towards our goal.”

930. “Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

931. “The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only for a thousand or so people at a time. This gives them the opportunity to perform to millions of people.”

932. “Playing with Michael Jordan would be a great opportunity for me. I would have someone around I could learn a lot from. I look up to him as a player and as a person, and that would make me a better player and person.”

933. “We live in a bubble sometimes, and you can get out of touch with your fans. You go to the studio, you come home. But coming to Comic-Con is a real opportunity to connect with the people that made your show happen and are responsible for its continued success. It's really humbling.”

934. “I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.”

935. “I had little or no opportunity when I started out in life.”

936. “I had the opportunity to go into the hospitals and talk to kids and see a kid and make him smile. Why? Because I'm a special person? No. It had nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with me being the quarterback at the University of Florida. And to not take advantage of that is a shame.”

937. “It's like I tell everybody, if you get a chance to win the Royal Rumble or the King of the Ring back when they had it, that means you're gonna get a push. You getting an opportunity at something big, and it can really set up your future for you. So if you're that guy, boy, it's pressure.”

938. “Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.”

939. “I'm delighted to be working on 'Casualty.' It's a terrific cast and crew, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity.”

940. “I'm a joker; that's my choice. It's my style. But I care about my life. I care about the game. I care about the people who gave me this opportunity.”

941. “If you are passionate about something, with hard work and opportunity, you will continue as long as you are enjoying what you do.”

942. “Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way.”

943. “I had an opportunity to meet Kobe and he's just an unbelievable person.”

944. “I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.”

945. “What was scaring me was if we lost, I didn't know how I'd play cricket again. This was such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a World Cup final at Lord's.”

946. “All children, regardless of their income, ethnicity, or geography have the right to be protected and be given the opportunity to reach their full potential, which is why our global HSNi Cares partner is the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.”

947. “Being able to get our foot in the door actually starts with people who are not Latinx giving us the opportunity to do so, because they have the privilege in this industry, and I would even say that I have the privilege in this industry being a white Latina. I'm considered more palatable to audiences.”

948. “For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.”

949. “Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.”

950. “The Declaration of Independence promised citizens equal access to economic opportunity. This was the powerful principle for which men were willing to fight the American Revolution, but it was never codified in law. When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they assumed that the country's vast resources would ensure equality of opportunity.”

951. “I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.”

952. “But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.”

953. “I felt like I missed my opportunity to pursue acting or entertainment. I convinced myself to believe that for quite some time, because I'm from a small town in North Carolina, you get married, have a house and car and live happily ever after. You have a baby early, honey, you go to work! I convinced myself that I had to be OK with that.”

954. “Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.”

955. “I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.”

956. “I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.”

957. “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

958. “'Like Father, Like Son' gave me the opportunity to show when it is not good with a father.”

959. “I've been very fortunate to have the opportunity to work on wonderful shows.”

960. “As far as One Direction goes, and Mindless Behavior and all the other bands, I'm all for it, and if there's ever an opportunity to work with them, that'd be great.”

961. “I never said I want to be the football guy. But when that opportunity started to become real, I said, 'Okay, let's see where this goes.'”

962. “Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.”

963. “It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.”

964. “I always say: 'If I'm lucky enough to be given the opportunity to work again, that's it, I'm being wheeled on, sitting on a sofa, and someone's going to feed me grapes, and I'm not getting up.'”

965. “Women are such incredible people. We're so multifaceted, we're so interesting, and any opportunity to celebrate that - because there's been many years of not being able to - and expose what it's like to be female and how we can be whoever we want to be, and do whatever we want to do, is great.”

966. “I'm Uncle Viv to Ian Botham's son, Liam, and I've been a sort of mentor to him over the years. I've always been there for him and whenever there was an opportunity to see him play sport, I was there.”

967. “When tragedy strikes, or even when it looms, our families will have the opportunity to look into our hearts to see whether we know what we said we knew. Our children will watch, feel the Spirit confirm that we lived as we preached, remember that confirmation, and pass the story across the generations.”

968. “I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.”

969. “By humanizing technology, we have this golden opportunity to reimagine how we connect with machines, and therefore, how we, as human beings, connect with one another.”

970. “I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.”

971. “And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.”

972. “I cherish the relationships and friendships I have with the people in my life and take every opportunity I have to make time for them.”

973. “I want to start a foundation called Second Chance. I was given a second chance, so I want to reach out to different groups of people. It would be nice to give that opportunity to others.”

974. “Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.”

975. “Business has a responsibility and opportunity to be the driving force for the advancement of universal human rights.”

976. “Effort should be made to see that the forum-type programs (the 'Today Show,' 'Meet the Press,' etc.) afford at least as much opportunity for supporters of the American system to participate as these programs do for those who attack it.”

977. “I always felt that just being an actor is difficult. Being an Asian-American actor doesn't make it more difficult. I see it as an opportunity and a chance to help other Asian-American actors coming along.”

978. “I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.”

979. “Each person has a way to promote their fight. Each person has a way to try to create opportunity in their career.”

980. “Mirroring is simply repeating what someone just said. It creates more reception from the other side, it focuses attention, and it gives them an opportunity to dial in more with you and you to dial in more with them. It causes an almost completely unconscious response for the person to want to go on.”

981. “The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.”

982. “From capitalizing housing trust funds, which allow low-income people to obtain grants to fix up and stay in their homes, to creating job training programs in schools, these are the kinds of economic stimuli that will give families the opportunity to thrive.”

983. “The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.”

984. “The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.”

985. “'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.”

986. “Argentina shows opportunity for doing good business, taking care of the environment to fight climate change, paying taxes. Argentina will continue to grow.”

987. “People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking.”

988. “When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.”

989. “I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.”

990. “I have to be prepared always and be at my best. I looked to bat 50 overs and score as many possible. It may not happen all the time, but whenever I see the opportunity, I try to make the most of it.”

991. “This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.”

992. “It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy… a girl.”

993. “One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that's something I admire about America and hope they continue with.”

994. “The number one thing I will take with me is my experience as a social worker who saw what happened to families who couldn't find jobs, struggled to take care of their health and saw opportunity slipping away for their kids. I ran for Congress because politicians were fighting with each other instead of looking out for these families.”

995. “I was born in Hereford, England, in 1944. We moved when they had an opportunity to get a visa, about 1950. My dad always thought Europe was a bit too small for him. He wanted to see the United States… The typical immigrant story. He wanted a better life for his children, too. He always tried to get the visa, and it didn't come up.”

996. “When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.”

997. “I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.”

998. “It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.”

999. “A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.”

1000. “Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”