Selfish Opportunist Quotes

#1. Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#2. I'm a huge Marlene Dietrich fan. She's got this raunchy kind of strength. It would be hard to find a man who could come up with something hard for her to handle. She's seen it all and done it all.

Jessica Pare

#3. The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.

Ernie Pyle

#4. The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.

Eric Schmidt

#5. I have destroyed him with the weapons I abhorred, and they are his. We have crossed each other's frotiers, we are the no-men of this no-man's land.

John Le Carre

#6. Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.

Swami Vivekananda

#7. I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery ... I am quite willing to believe that anything in deductive logic can be done by machinery.

Bertrand Russell

#8. How did anyone see the stars and not wish for more than the confinement they were born to?

Diana Peterfreund

#9. His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.

Jack Newfield

#10. If you're going to take the attitude, I don't think it will work, you will never do anything.

Bernie Ecclestone

#11. Fear's contagious, but so is courage.

Betty Williams