Opportune Moment Quotes

#1. Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

Hesiod

#2. The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.

David Ben-Gurion

#3. Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers and no vengeance worse than the body denied.

Austin Osman Spare

#4. But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton's incredibly energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce at the most opportune moment perhaps the most creative liability in American history.

Joseph J. Ellis

#5. If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.

Jack Sparrow

#6. She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#7. Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

Newell Dwight Hillis

#8. Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at the opportune moment.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#10. A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing ...

Lois Wyse

#11. Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

Michael Pollan

#12. People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners are later inventions - words that people wished they had spouted, but failed to manufacture at the truly opportune instant.

Stephen Jay Gould

#13. Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

Colleen McCullough

#14. I'll always wonder what could have been with Steven Warner, but he never showed any interest outside of friendship so I never pushed it.

Rachel Robinson

#15. Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder. All these niggas is corn, sworn in secret societies, devils with no horn.

Jadakiss

#16. I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

Gary Bauer