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opportunity men often-is
Charles Caleb Colton Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
opportunity female lovers
Charles Caleb Colton Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
opportunity mind glory
Charles Caleb Colton The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.
opportunity extremity
Charles Spurgeon Our extremities are God's opportunities.
opportunity honor denial
Charles Spurgeon When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.
opportunity library today
Alan Moore I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
opportunity voice people
Alan Moore It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
opportunity giving people
Alan Green I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
library stories shelves
Deb Caletti ...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.
library librarian democratic
Thomas Jefferson A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.
library democracy matter
Bill Moyers When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
library needs definitions
Bill Watterson County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?
library
Bud Schmidt We're going to get a new library here.
library shelter muse
Barbara Tuchman To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
library tools standards
Bjarne Stroustrup I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries
library wheels librarian
Bjarne Stroustrup The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
library computer phenomenon
Bill Gates This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
today lasts next
Alan Perlis We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
today politics tomorrow
Al Sharpton Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.
today problem gender
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.
today wonder
Loretta Young Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.
today year
Randy Waynick We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago.
today seduction dangerous
Bill Moyers The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.
today triumph cry
Bertolt Brecht Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
today garbage ordinary
Carl Bernstein Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
today dishes britain
Aasif Mandvi Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.