“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”

— Eric Roth

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

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American screenwriter 1945

Publilio Siro Latin writer

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Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

“Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.”

Aidan Chambers (1934) British children's writer

Source: Dying to Know You

“It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity.”

Yoshijirō Umezu (1882–1949) Japanese general

Quoted in "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire" - Page 754 - by John Toland - History - 2003.

“One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

“The ways we miss our lives are life.”

Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist

"A Girl in a Library," line 92
The Seven-League Crutches (1951)

“The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

Abba Eban (1915–2002) Israeli diplomat and politician

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).