“By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people have opportunity, kids have a better education, we're more competitive, climate change is being taken more seriously than it was.Those are going to be the measures by which I look back and say whether I've been successful as president.” PeopleLooksCountryKidsOpportunityPresidentSuccessfulTakenOfficeClimateClimate ChangeHookProsperousCrooks Author:Barack Obama
“Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.” HumansMayOpportunityUnderstandingSeeingMissingAmountOfficeTrainAffectionSunsetConsiderationClosestMinorsTicketsMisunderstandingSmall ThingsHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsDrainedMissed Opportunity Author:Iris Origo
“Only in America, where someone like me could have the opportunity to seek the highest office the world has to offer. Not only can all of us achieve whatever dream we want to achieve because of the place where we live and the opportunities it gives us, but that we not only can do it together, but we have to do it together!” WorldWantGivingDreamTogetherAmericaOpportunityCan DoAchieveOffersOfficeHighestLike MeOnly In America Author:Chris Christie
“I've had opportunities before to run for office - the Republicans recruited me when I was surgeon general, to run for Congress, to run against Gov. Napolitano. But I didn't feel it was my calling... I felt, 'Well, I'm flattered, but I really would rather stay and be the doctor of the nation and stay as surgeon general.'” FeelsWellsRunningOpportunityNationsFeltCallingRepublicanOfficeDoctorsCongressSurgeonsFlattered Author:Richard Carmona
“When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.” WritingMindFirstsHeartBookMatterHardUseEyeOpportunityMy OwnAnimalSeeingMovementOfficeFindingsUnderstoodFunctionDifficultyDissection Author:William Harvey
“Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]” PeopleKindOpportunityPeriodsOfficeBritishDecadesShatteredBlairMissed Opportunity Author:Menzies Campbell