Opportune Quotes

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

Hesiod

#2. I think I came along at an opportune time. I don't know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.

Sylvester Stallone

#3. I kill in my own time," he said. "In any case, killing unconscious people isn't right."
"I can't think of a more opportune time," said the Loremaster.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.

Alan Keyes

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I don't show off. I merely demonstrate my abilities at opportune times.

Derek Landy

#8. We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete.

Brian Roberts

#9. If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune legislative measures - to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured.

Pope John Paul II

#10. Never ignore others because you are opportune to find yourself in a much better state than them; you just never know what the future holds".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#11. 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

#12. Sometimes, at the least opportune times, the past is an insomniac, alive and well.

Courtney Cole

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

Newell Dwight Hillis

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#15. That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the least opportune moments.

Stephen King

#16. To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Charlie Chaplin

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

Jack Sparrow

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Retirement with its open canvas, is an especially opportune time to cultivate expanded experiences.

Timothy McIntyre

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

David Ben-Gurion

#22. Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

Bell Hooks

#23. There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

Jack Youngblood

#24. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.

Ian Stewart

#25. On the average day, we live caught up in ourselves. On the average day, we don't consider God very much. On the average day, we forget that our life truly is a vapor.

Francis Chan

#26. There may be two or three or four steps, according to the genius of each, but for every seeing soul there are two absorbing facts,
I and the abyss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. There's no way I could look like this without them.

Ruth Warrick

#28. I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.

Bobby Cannavale

#29. Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

Emma Willard

#30. I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

Kat Dennings

#31. The candle-end had long been burning out in the bent candlestick, casting a dim light in this destitute room upon the murderer and the harlot strangely come together over the reading of the eternal book.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#32. But I needed to create a life of my own. And here I

Hannah Kent

#33. Her fury had nothing else to eat and so it began to eat her.

Seth Dickinson

#34. Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.

Michael Chabon