He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.
Steve Ballmer

Whatever coach Coker wanted me to do, I was willing to do... If he wanted me to sit the rest of the year, then that's what I would have done. This opportunity came and he asked me if I wanted to play. Any player is going to say yes.
Andrew Johnson

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.
David Lynch

Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
Namie Amuro

Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity.
Jessica Hahn

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Bobby Unser

I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.
Wynton Marsalis

This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.
Wynton Marsalis

I had the opportunity to do what I enjoy.
Haywood Nelson

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
Lech Walesa

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
Lech Walesa

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.
Janice Markowitz

When you have the opportunity, you strike.
Rod Laver

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
Jeremy Rifkin

We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express.
Richard King

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
Mason Cooley

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
Suzanne Farrell

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.
Bill Frist