Opportunity

Famous quotes containing the word opportunity:

“The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 38:24.

“There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.”
—Agatha Christie (1891–1976)

“There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)