Opportunity

Famous quotes containing the word opportunity:

    All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.
    Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

    In the genuine hope that this peace will be permanent, we take the opportunity to pay homage to all our fighters, commandos and volunteers who have paid the supreme sacrifice. They did not die in vain. The union is safe.
    —Combined Loyalist Military Command. New York Times, p. A12 (October 14, 1994)

    Shears: You mean, you intend to uphold the letter of the law, no matter what it costs?
    Colonel Nicholson: Without law, Commander, there is no civilization.
    Shears: That’s just my point. Here, there is no civilization.
    Colonel Nicholson: Then perhaps we have the opportunity to introduce it.
    Michael Wilson (1914–1978)