— José Rizal Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist 1861 - 1896
Letter to Mariano Ponce, (1890)
„An opportunity missed once will present itself again, whereas a too hasty action can never be recalled.“
— Choderlos De Laclos, kniha Les Liaisons dangereuses
Une occasion manquée se retrouve, tandis qu’on ne revient jamais d’une démarche précipitée.
Letter 33: La Marquise de Merteuil to le Vicomte de Valmont. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_33
Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
Originál
Une occasion manquée se retrouve, tandis qu'on ne revient jamais d'une démarche précipitée.
Les Liaisons dangereuses, 1782, Marquise de Merteuil
Varianta: Une occasion manquée se retrouve, tandis qu’on ne revient jamais d’une démarche précipitée.
Choderlos De Laclos6
francouzský romanopisec, oficiální a armádní generál 1741 - 1803Podobné citáty
„The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.“
— Abba Eban Israeli diplomat and politician 1915 - 2002
As quoted in The Jerusalem Post (18 November 2002) http://www.factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000491.html; often misquoted as "Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." The quote is attributed to Abba Eban after the Geneva Peace Conference http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/geneva.html with Arab countries (21 December 1973).
„We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.“
— Shunroku Hata Japanese general 1879 - 1962
Quoted in "Enter Japan" - "Time Magazine" article - July 8, 1940
„The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.“
— Robert Orben American magician and writer 1928
Marianne Means (September 26, 1986) "I Just Flew In From The White House - And, Boy, Are My Arms Tired", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p. A10.
„It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity.“
— Yoshijirō Umezu Japanese general 1882 - 1949
Quoted in "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire" - Page 754 - by John Toland - History - 2003.
„Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.“
— Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
Zdroj: Salem Falls
— Edward VIII of the United Kingdom king of the United Kingdom and its dominions in 1936 1894 - 1972
A King's Story http://books.google.com/books?id=D2a1AAAAIAAJ&q=%22only+two+rules+really+count+never+miss+an+opportunity+to+relieve+yourself+never+miss+a+chance+to+sit+down+and+rest+your+feet%22&pg=PA132#v=onepage (1951)
„I've learned…. That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.“
— Andy Rooney writer, humorist, television personality 1919 - 2011
„I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.“
— Elizabeth Berg American novelist 1948
Zdroj: The Year of Pleasures
„I never miss a chance to reject military action against my homeland.“
— Reza Pahlavi Last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran 1960
Iran, Regime Change or Behavior Change: A false choice http://www.rezapahlavi.org/details_article.php?article=104&page=5, Hudson Institute, Apr. 3, 2007.
Speeches, 2007
Kontext: I never miss a chance to reject military action against my homeland. I am against war. I hope you are too, and I can not believe that you would be for surrender. Thus, we are left with regime change vs. behavior change. And as indicated earlier, that is a false choice. So what is the right choice? Like most totalitarian leaders, Iran’s Supreme Islamist leader wakes up every morning wondering if the morale and ideological glue of his security forces will hold. To strengthen their spine, he feels he has to take tough, uncompromising stands against his ideological adversaries – liberal democracies in general, and the United States and Israel in particular. The reckless self-righteousness of his “other-worldly” ideology will continue this course, until a final collision. This behavior will not change unless he wakes up one morning with an even greater fear: seeing the Iranian people joining hands and rising up against his theocratic tyranny. Unlike forgetful analysts in the West, he knows the Iranian people have changed their regimes many times before, when they had far less reasons to do so. He watches carefully for the signs of history repeating itself. Once he sees those signs, and only then, will he change his behavior. That is why idealism and realism, behavior change and regime change do not require different policies but the same: empowering the Iranian people. This is my political mission in life. I ask for your support, and thank you sincerely for sharing some of your valuable time with me.
— Roger Ebert American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter 1942 - 2013
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-sleepy-time-gal-2002 of The Sleepy Time Gal (22 November 2002)
Reviews, Three-and-a-half star reviews
„Good officers never engage in general actions unless induced by opportunity or obliged by necessity.“
Boni duces publico certamine numquam nisi ex occasione aut nimia necessitate confligunt.
— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, kniha De re militari
De Re Militari (also Epitoma Rei Militaris), Book III, "Dispositions for Action"
Kontext: Punishment, and fear thereof, are necessary to keep soldiers in order in quarters; but in the field they are more influenced by hope and rewards. Good officers never engage in general actions unless induced by opportunity or obliged by necessity. (General Maxims)