I know this: the opportunity to play, when that leaves, it is over.
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we?
Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.
Opportunity only knocks so many times.
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.
Obama had the opportunity to really unite this country in such a profound way, but instead, he has done the opposite.
If the doors are going to close on me, it's a little late.
I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.
I still believe we wasted a golden opportunity to make significant changes in our country. I think people in America would have been ready and willing to do it, but the Bush administration took a kind of simplistic, almost moronic approach to it, all because people were so afraid.
I wasn't granted the opportunity to fight some of the best guys in the world. And that was something that was not on my end by any sense of the imagination.
We have to win everything. The last time we went to South Africa, we had an opportunity to win the series, but things didn't work out.
And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.
You really have one bite at the apple.
Too often, researchers on the cusp of a new discovery are held back by needless red tape and paperwork, meaning their innovative work cannot be capitalised on.
Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.
Our whole life is a fooling around. You can do it because you are not aware of how you waste time, how you waste energy - how life is wasted you are not aware. It is going down the drain. Everything is going down the drain. Only when death comes to you, you may become aware, alert: What have I been doing? What have I done with life? A great opportunity has been lost. What was I doing fooling around? I was not sober. I never reflected upon what I was doing.
I should have sent him somewhere as an ambassador. The world’s a big place.
when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.
I think the print media have failed to make the most of their opportunity. They may all disappear because they are approaching things in the wrong way.
If I could have had the opportunity to be a full-time fighter while I was one of the best in the world, what could I have done then?
Deliberando saepe perit occasio
Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.
