Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Margaret Mead

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women ...

Margaret Heffernan

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

Margaret J. Wheatley

A leader is one who... Has more faith in people than they do, and . . . who holds opportunities open long enough for their competence to re-emerge.

Michael Lewis

The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people who didn't use it.

Michael Fassbender

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

Michael Bloomberg

The estate taxes, on balance, are good. They get people to give money to charity, and they prevent these family dynasties which keep other people from having opportunities. It may be good for a family, but for society it's probably not good. And I've always been in favor of having an estate tax.

Michael Bloomberg

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

Melinda Gates

With economic opportunity, sometimes it's making sure that if they're not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.

Michelle Bachelet

As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

Michael Patrick Jann

Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.

Michael Parenti

In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process of subsidies, supports, and deficit spending and an increasingly inequitable tax system.

Michael McMillian

For every problem, there exists a solution...and at the very least...an opportunity.

Megan Fox

The things that happen in your life are either your choices or opportunities and lessons the universe has put before you. Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.

Medea Benjamin

Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as collaborative and democratic processes ... If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic, we have a truly historic opportunity to build a global movement for social justice.

Maynard Webb

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

Max Lucado

Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.

Max Baucus

Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

Maureen Johnson

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.

Matthew Underwood

Though some choices may slow our journey, every path we take gives us more familiarity with how our actions affect the world around us, giving us more opportunities to learn how to help ourselves and others.

Matthew Simpson

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.

Maynard Jackson

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

Maya Rudolph

I have an equal opportunity womb!

Maud Adams

I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.

Mattie Stepanek

Expressing my feelings and then the opportunity to share it with others is just such a gift.

Matt Taibbi

If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.

Meg Whitman

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

Meg Cabot

All I did was die,' I said. 'And then, when presented with an opportunity not to be dead any more, I took it. Anyone else would have done the same thing.

Maxwell Maltz

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.

Max de Pree

When trust permeates a ministry, great things are possible, not the least of which is an opportunity to reach the ministry's potential.

Maurice Gibb

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

Matthew Quick

Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical." "That's just a story." "So are we- we're stories too.

Marilynne Robinson

If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.