Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
~By Dorothy Day ~
An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.
~By Edward Levi ~
It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
~By William Thomas Stead ~
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
~By Arundhati Roy ~
Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
~By Ed Rendell ~
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.
~By Robert Crippen ~
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
~By Campbell Scott ~
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
~By Peter Marshall ~
Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?
~By Edward Hoagland ~
In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.
~By Griffin Dunne ~
Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
~By Pat Brown ~
I have long ties to the women's community.
~By Donna Shalala ~
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
~By Edward Sapir ~
We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.
~By Stuart Rothenberg ~
Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.
~By Johnny Kelly ~
Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.
~By Herbie Mann ~
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
~By Christa McAuliffe ~
I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.
~By Lee Child ~
At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.
~By Jane Byrne ~
I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want us in your community, that's your choice, but don't say it's because of wages.
~By Lee Scott ~
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
~By William James ~
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
~By Erwin Schrodinger ~
Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
~By Julie Andrews ~
Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome.
~By Sellapan Ramanathan ~
Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
~By Alan Autry ~
The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.
~By Donald Johanson ~
I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~
The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.
~By Peter Garrett ~
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
~By Denzel Washington ~
They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.
~By Charles Farrar Browne ~
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
~By Van Morrison ~
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.
~By Anna Lindh ~
Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five.
~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.
~By Johannes P. Muller ~
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
~By John Dewey ~
I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.
~By Larry Dixon ~
And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.
~By Adam Schiff ~
We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.
~By Levon Helm ~
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.
~By Helmut Kohl ~
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
~By Mordecai Wyatt Johnson ~
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
~By Betty Friedan ~
We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.
~By Lorenzo Snow ~
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
~By Margaret Cho ~
We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.
~By Henry Hampton ~
Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.
~By Jai Rodriguez ~
I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.
~By Rowan Williams ~
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
~By Henry Ford ~
America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
~By Cal Thomas ~
One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.
~By Zack Wamp ~
The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.
~By Clay Aiken ~
To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do.
~By Judith Light ~
I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.
~By Debbie Meyer ~
The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
~By Sam Elliott ~
It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.
~By Rafer Johnson ~
When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.
~By Betty Buckley ~
I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.
~By Vincent Frank ~
We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
~By Marc Almond ~
Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
~By Janet Reno ~
For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country.
~By Spencer Bachus ~
There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury.
~By Patty Hearst ~
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
~By Renata Adler ~
Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.
~By George Carey ~
Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
~By Jon Bon Jovi ~
Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.
~By Jeb Bush ~
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
~By Annie Jump Cannon ~
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
~By Larry Harvey ~
You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
~By Elvis Costello ~
Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
~By John Doerr ~
I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.
~By Missy Elliot ~
We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.
~By Robert Huber ~
There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.
~By Linda M. Godwin ~
So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
~By Ed Smith ~
Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.
~By Peter Pace ~
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
~By Amartya Sen ~
It was an exciting time for me personally because the number of times I've been to the playoffs, that was the opportunity to obtain the first ring. That was special, that's for sure.
~By Roger Clemens ~
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
~By Alan Bennett ~
I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.
~By Ryan Gosling ~
If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.
~By David Friedrich Strauss ~
There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.
~By Robert Menendez ~
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
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