Squandered Opportunity Quotes

#1. Only silly Dorothys arrive in a magical land and want to go home. You don't want to be a silly stinking Dorothy, do you? They're reviled throughout every wondrous land. Did you know the name Dorothy translates as "squandered opportunity"?

Bill Willingham

#2. Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

Joe Biden

#3. My father actually moved out from Chicago just so he could play tennis 365 days a year, so it was - it was a place we played every day. We played before school. We played after school. We woke up. We played tennis. We brushed our teeth in that order.

Andre Agassi

#4. The road to anywhere is the road to nowhere, and the road to nowhere leads to dreams sacrificed, opportunities squandered, and a life unfulfilled. In our journey we will encounter forks and turnings in the road.

Thomas S. Monson

#5. For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.

Alan Arkin

#6. I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. I have never squandered an opportunity to read.

Joe Queenan

#8. We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Ann Landers

#9. followed her outside, deeply moved.

Danielle Steel

#10. It's yad that propels us, like a motor, onward. Yad is like envy, but it's not simply that. It's like spite, rage, anger, but more elegant, more complicated. It's like pity for someone, regret for something you did or did not do, for a chance you missed, for an opportunity you squandered.

Miroslav Penkov

#11. Maybe, in the back of my head, I'm thinking I have to do as much as I can. It'll stop.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#12. I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

Virgilia Peterson

#13. I don't like anyone who comes and dies in my house on purpose to annoy me," said Lord Caterham obstinately.

Agatha Christie

#14. Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Dhani Jones

#15. Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war.

Sinclair Lewis

#16. She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

William Gibson