A Quote by George Eliot

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

George Eliot

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Cant He Man Man Opportunity Use

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George Eliot
British - Novelist
November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.

Thomas Love Peacock

Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.

B. C. Forbes

Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.

Cormac McCarthy

Women like to use products that other women say work. The Internet will be a big opportunity, but you cant smell a fragrance there yet.

Andrea Jung

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Robert Collier

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

George Eliot

There is but one straight road to success, and that is merit. The man who is successful is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It can not remain undiscovered, because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

William Bourke Cockran

But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?

John O'Hara

the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are

Elizabeth Scott

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

Marina Abramovic

Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable

Rick Warren

I cant live without activity; I cant be sedentary.

Ferran Adria

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Laurence Sterne

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Laurence Sterne

I think 'community,' in the sense in which politicians use, it is largely a cant term.