Arthur Brisbane Quotes

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

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• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians... if we were given that opportunity.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • World
  • Men
  • Business

• The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Nice

• Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Difference

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

  

  Majora Carter
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• For some reason, the word 'feminist' freaks people out, but when you look it up, all it means is equal opportunity.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • People
  • Up
  • Opportunity

• In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Opportunity
  • Powerful

• Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • California

• I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity
  • Space

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

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Time
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Opportunity
  • Disappointment

• Our top plank really is a Green New Deal to transform our economy to a green economy, 100 percent wind, water and sun by the year 2030 - we can do it; this is an emergency, and we must do it - but to use that as an opportunity to put America back to work, to renew our infrastructure, and to basically assure that everyone has a job.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Work
  • Job
  • America

• As I have written before, one of my favorite parts of my job as CEO of Moda Operandi is the opportunity I get to explore international fashion scenes to discover new talent, and then being able to introduce these designers to our community of fashion-savvy customers worldwide.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• 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.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Education is a cause very close to me. What matters is encouraging my fans to focus on their education, because only an educated generation can ensure a better future. Even when I was on tour, I did my homework and studied.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Future
  • Education
  • Focus

• We arrive at a portrayal of other things, such as the laws governing matter. These are the great generalities – Which do not change.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Great

• If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise, you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • Music

• Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

  

  Arthur Brisbane
  • Opportunity
  • Changes
  • Passed