Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI 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.‘
Kanye WestOn September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
George W. BushHeaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
Billy GrahamWherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.
Kevin HartThere is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert CamusNothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
Niccolo MachiavelliA successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Robert FrostI mean we all need a second chance sometimes.
Joel OsteenI 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.
Keanu ReevesI believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
Dalai LamaIt’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.
Ruth Bader GinsburgNot to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
PlatoI do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.
Joel OsteenI was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.
Dwayne JohnsonA jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert FrostHundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
George W. BushJohn Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.
Barack ObamaIn the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Noam ChomskyThe secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin DisraeliLot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.
Sunil ChhetriFree trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Edmund BurkePerhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar WildeAmerica is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. BushBut what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George EliotMr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.
Mr. TTrayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.
Barack ObamaI refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy CarterThe Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.
Joe BidenFoolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas CarlyleClever tyrants are never punished.
VoltaireWherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIs there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?
Colin PowellI’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.
Denzel WashingtonThe people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas SowellWhen there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
PlatoThrowing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.
Elon MuskThe jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert FrostTherefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Queen Elizabeth III guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.
Paul AusterThere is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthurI love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James BaldwinInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
Marcus Tullius CiceroHe hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.
Douglas AdamsThe hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Martin Luther King, Jr.All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.
Russell M. NelsonWhile victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.
Jim MattisWe have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
Barack ObamaLet me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.
Joe BidenAll the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Immanuel KantHe who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
PlatoAll great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald ReaganNo great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson