A Quote by Publilius Syrus

A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.

Publilius Syrus

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Publilius Syrus
Roman - Writer
85 BC - 43 BC

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

George D. Prentice

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

George Dennison Prentice

I've always presented as a very cisgender male and that was part of the reason I was able to cover so easily... I was always in such a strictly binary environment growing up. I was never given an opportunity to sort of play into more genderqueer fashion.

Eugene Lee Yang

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a greater opportunity.

Wallace D. Wattles

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

Mahatma Gandhi

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

Arthur C. Clarke

An optimist is presented with a problem and sees an opportunity. A pessimist is presented with an opportunity and sees a problem.

Harry S. Truman

Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.

Duncan Jones

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

Khaled Hosseini

I had the opportunity to go up to New York and be on the 'Inside Amy Schumer' show with Michael Strahan and Vernon Davis and those guys. That was an opportunity that presented itself, and it was something different and fun. I had a great time. Those guys are really good dudes, and she's obviously incredibly talented.

Greg Olsen

I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.

Angela Bassett

Be good to others, but don't expect a lot of gratitude in this world. Remember that good deeds are seldom remembered and bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

Ernie J Zelinski

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

Josiah Johnson Hawes

Happiness is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes. If you find it, please, don't take it for granted. If you Happen to stray from it, don't let negative obstacles overcome you. Anger and rage only detour you from your final objectives. The future holds nothing but opportunity, and good things happen to good people I promise

Jeff Hardy

A movie like Mercury' is a once in a generation opportunity for me. It doesn't come easily to a music director and I am privileged to have gotten this opportunity.

Santhosh Narayanan

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

Clive Davis

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