"You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you."

-- Mary Oliver

#Opportunity Quotes

“A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.”
“Nearly 100,000 sex offenders remain unregistered, and are moving freely about the country; the risk that they may strike again grows every day.”
“As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.”

Source : "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.
“The failure of so many marriages is due to their getting married out of animal passion and not out of love.”
“One should talk tough to friends in private, but, as the first phone call with the president of the United States, you're trying to build your personal relationship. You're trying to build on the alliance and the partnerships that we have. Usually, that tough talk doesn't happen with your friends and partners. And people wonder why the tough talk by Donald Trump is happening with Mexico and happening with Germany and happening with our pals, but it's not happening with Russia.”
“For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty.”

Source : Arthur Machen (2016). “The Terror: Machen's Collection”, p.37, VM eBooks
“This is what it's like to get old: You still feel 19, except your knees hurt”

Source : "Regrets at Fordham". Interview with Keith Gessen, nplusonemag.com. December 17, 2011.
“There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.”

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