Top 100 Valid Quotes
#1. He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.
James Finn Garner
#2. I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
John Steinbeck
#3. It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.
Norman Jewison
#4. When you have a valid opinion around, it takes a lot of the pressure off.
Drake
#5. You might say that science operates pragmatically and religion by divine guidance. If valid, they would reach the same conclusions but science would take a lot longer.
Peace Pilgrim
#6. Argentina wouldn't exist if not for self-determination, and this can't be valid for some but not for others.
Pepe Eliaschev
#7. To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.
Ernest Kurtz
#8. I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.
Tim Walker
#9. Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!
John Lydon
#10. Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#11. A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.
Gustav Stresemann
#12. See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.
Evan Dando
#13. We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
Mark Rothko
#14. Some people discard their childhood like an old hat.
They forget about it like a phone number that's no longer valid.
They used to be kids, then they became adults - but what are they now?
Only those who grow up but continue to be children are humans.
Erick Kastner
#15. Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad.
Paul Samuelson
#16. Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.
Louise Mensch
#18. If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.
Ayn Rand
#19. I don't know of many people who've done sex research with an eye toward people saying sex is bad for you, except for the promiscuity and cervical cancer link - which is actually a valid discovery.
Mary Roach
#20. The conclusion is that the physical theory and the mathematical theory of science are valid methods but not valid philosophies. Facts need interpretation the physical theory forgets that it has no such principles of interpretation with its own bosom.
Fulton J. Sheen
#21. A legitimate plurality of positions has yielded to an undifferentiated pluralism, based upon the assumption that all positions are equally valid, which is one of today's most widespread symptoms of the lack of confidence in truth.
Pope John Paul II
#22. Just because you're from a small town doesn't mean that you're small. Don't ever think anyone's more important than you are or has more valid experiences.
Gwendolyn Heasley
#23. That's the vast majority of this social media, all these reviews, all these comments. Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.
Dave Eggers
#24. Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, which invented laws.
Kevin Bleyer
#25. The whole purpose of scientific method is to make valid distinctions between the false and the true in nature, to eliminate the subjective, unreal, imaginary elements from one's work so as to obtain an objective, true picture of reality.
Robert M. Pirsig
#26. I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing ... not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.
Langston Hughes
#27. Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.
Fernando Pessoa
#28. There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. Indeed, of the major religions, Islam offers no discernible sliver of valid notion for How Life Works.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#30. Not knowing the answer to a question is not a valid excuse for making up a fairytale to explain it.
Armin Navabi
#31. It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.
Aleister Crowley
#32. The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one casual and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available.
Ted Chiang
#33. I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
Zora Neale Hurston
#34. One should take good care never to treat one's own moral code as something universally valid
Stephan Lebert
#35. She had lived her whole life on shifting quicksand, where reason and the intellect were not to be trusted, where only faith was valid, and blind faith was sacred. She, herself, had enforced mindless conformity to that empty evil.
Terry Goodkind
#36. I state in my book Put Your Dream to the Test that the more valid reasons a person has to achieve their dream, the higher the odds are that they will. Valid reasons also increase the odds that a person will follow through with personal growth.
John C. Maxwell
#37. Yet he understood that there are some things you feel and others that you choose to feel, and that the choice doesn't make the feeling less valid.
Marie Rutkoski
#38. We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
Dean Koontz
#39. Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true.
Ann Shulgin
#40. About the only valid definition (of science fiction) that I'm willing to accept is this: all of modern, mainstream, and realistic fiction is simply a branch, a category, or a subset of science fiction.
Mike Resnick
#41. Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
Freya Stark
#42. Delight is a subjective reason for praying, but it is a valid one.
Peter Kreeft
#43. As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
Prince Charles
#44. Emotions are not bad, but they must be examined. Know yourself. Feelings always seem valid, but they can confuse. And they can, as you have seen, be used against you.
G. Norman Lippert
#45. Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.
Peter Brook
#46. Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.
Sonny Perdue
#47. The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces.
Richard Dawkins
#48. There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.
Cindy Sheehan
#49. Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever.
Richard Diaz
#50. This weird thing that musicians have ... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.
Glen Hansard
#51. I make it a point not to buy certain magazines, not because I am against tabloids or things like that, but I want to fill my mind with valid issues in the world.
Angelina Jolie
#52. Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
Max Weber
#53. If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
Yann Martel
#54. Self-awareness is a great tool to combating resistance. When you feel resistance to taking action, stop in your tracks. Try to understand the 'why' behind it. Is the resistance valid?
Vatsala Shukla
#55. True. We both could. One of these days our search history is going to tip off the NSA and then we're going to be in trouble. It was a valid worry for a writer.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#56. Nor is there any valid reason to reject the idea of God or the notion of the sacred just because of the sickly expression Christianity has given to them, any more than it is necessary to break with aristocratic principles on the pretext that they have been caricatured by the bourgeoisie.
Alain De Benoist
#57. It is sometimes argued that one of the benefits of legalizing addictive drugs is that they could be taxed, and the government revenues enhanced. From this perspective, this would be the only valid case against legalization.
Walter Block
#58. No scientific or medical study is valid unless and until a heavy metal assay has been completed on the subject(s).
Richard Diaz
#60. I did business the same way President Lee did, and from what I read in the papers, the same way President Ma has done. But I have been charged for misuse and misappropriation. People need to learn at the most basic level that valid charges have not been brought against me.
Chen Shui-bian
#61. Prominent Christians in Constantine's time waited to be baptized until their deathbeds lest they commit a "major"sin that couldn't be forgiven of those already baptized. Others felt anyone who did anything to avoid martyrdom were apostates had no valid subsequent ministry.
Thomas F. Madden
#62. The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.
Peter Drucker
#63. There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
Ernest Hemingway,
#64. With a Nine Inch Nails show, I'm building on a legacy that comes with a certain set of expectations. I have to push that forward, I have to reinvent myself, I have to feel current and valid.
Trent Reznor
#65. The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as they were when God gave them. They reflect the moral character of God, and they also provide the foundation of right living with others.
Billy Graham
#66. There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.
Charlotte Rampling
#68. I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.
Ellar Coltrane
#69. Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
Macklemore
#71. The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
Tommy Smothers
#72. If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James
#73. What is a valid reason for someone to love someone else? Since apparently I'm doing it wrong.
Stephenie Meyer
#74. [T]he biblical creation story, like the creation stories of other cultures, communicates social and religious values and presents them as if they were universally valid.
Elaine Pagels
#75. The laws of certain states ... give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property ... But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty - and when the captor in war ... thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.
Alexander Hamilton
#76. I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
David Attenborough
#77. As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing.
Spike Lee
#79. The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself.
Marty Rubin
#80. At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.
Mark Tobey
#81. Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid arguments.
W.H. Newton-Smith
#82. Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.
Vanna Bonta
#83. I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didn't want to be either one.
Suheir Hammad
#84. I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.
Bill Plympton
#85. A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.
Johan Huizinga
#86. Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to crush humanity or serve humanity?" Humanity comes not from the machine but from the heart. What I see in Star Wars is the same problem that Faust gives us:
Joseph Campbell
#87. 'Frankenstein' is a work rich in possible meanings, so the horror-show interpretation is as valid as any.
Dave Morris
#88. No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.
Ken Ham
#89. Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.
Arthur Frommer
#90. For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual LP. How cool is that?" That's very sacred to me. You can't take that back, you know?
Ryan Adams
#92. When an employee asks why the company does things a certain way, and you can explain the logical reason, then the employee knows what she's doing is valid.
Harvey MacKay
#93. Autism: I may not speak with my mouth. There are many ways to communicate. They are all valid.
Tina J. Richardson
#94. The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
Clement Greenberg
#95. If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.
Charlie Cox
#96. Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
Morley Safer
#97. There is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.
Paulo Freire
#98. Faith is only as valid as its object. You could have tremendous faith in very thin ice and drown ... You could have very little faith in very thick ice and be perfectly secure.
Stuart Briscoe
#99. To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.
Jan Struther
#100. My feelings are a fact, not a personal delusion. They are valid for me. What business have you got trying to tell me how I ought to feel?
Elizabeth Peters
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