Quotes About Opportunists

#1. They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.

Jay Carr

#2. Without integrity, secrecy can become a license for opportunists to distort and corrupt the system.

Monika Jensen-Stevenson

#3. It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil, ... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

George McGovern

#4. The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Octavia Butler

#6. But even as every promise was broken, the party kept on gaining followers. Many were idealists, some were opportunists, others thugs. They displayed astonishing faith and almost fanatical conviction, sometimes even after they themselves had ended up being devoured by the party machinery. A

Frank Dikotter

#7. When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

Ralph W. Sockman

#8. Prisons are cesspools of corruption, inhabited by snitches, opportunists, and guards on the take.

Matt Leatherwood Jr.

#9. Wouldn't it be great if all career phonies, faux friends or opportunists could be identified quickly in professional networking circles by wearing signs like "Career Dip", "No Loyalty Card" or "Opportunist Knocks"?

Torry Martin

#10. Opportunists are promoted, realists are co-opted, idealists are frightened and radicals are shot.

Heather Marsh

#11. We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality.

Amilcar Cabral

#12. There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

Hippolyte Taine

#13. I guess that showed why the Guard mainly meddles with humanoid cultures. We're opportunists, not real knowledge-seekers, and we just don't have the knowledge base to go beyond humanoid contacts.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#14. Sometimes institutional progress gets thrown into reverse, often when the programmes are attacked by the financial managers, occasionally through lack of foresight and planning and sometimes through what I call 'institutional opportunists'.

Gordon M. Kerkham

#15. Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#16. If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred.

Sylvia Plath

#17. Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing.

Tom Vilsack

#18. Opportunists seek for a chance.
Entrepreneurs make new chances.

Toba Beta

#19. In the fall of 1887, Ed Curtis and his father arrived in the Puget Sound area, which was opening up to land opportunists after treaties had removed most of the Indian, and all of the British, claims to the region.

Timothy Egan

#20. Exceptional performers are masterful opportunists, keenly alert to opportunity!

Brian Tracy

#21. Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

William Matthews

#22. Mills was experienced enough to understand what gay men were often forced to be in this world: romantic opportunists.

Christopher Bollen

#23. Immeasurable voids and endless questions are often created when a father deliberately abandons his child. Far too often, those empty spaces are filled by opportunists who see that vulnerability as something to exploit.

Steve Pemberton

#24. Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

Diablo Cody

#25. Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#26. I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.

Whoopi Goldberg

#27. Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

Gavin Bryars

#28. Just know this isn't going to be easy. I'm not always going to agree with whatever you want." "If I wanted agreeable, I'd get a pet.

Milly Taiden

#29. Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.

Bryant McGill

#30. The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.

Matt Damon

#31. buddha nature, or basic goodness.

Lodro Rinzler

#32. Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other ... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#33. People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

Norman Mailer

#34. The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.

Edmond Taylor

#35. The pain does grow less acute, but the insidious palace lie that we will get over crushing losses means that our emotional GPS can never find true north, as it is based on maps that no longer mention the most important places we have been to.

Anne Lamott

#36. I wanted to say something, protest in some way, but then i felt the heat of him against the wetness i'd created, and i could've sworn i heard us sizzle. ~ Livvie

C.J. Roberts

#37. One of my favorite first sentences of a
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again.

Daphne Du Maurier

#38. How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?

Hermann Hesse

#39. If you're going to think and be depressed, you might as well do it with pie, right?

Lish McBride