Top 100 Valid Quotes
#1. Men think that sentiment is not valid; women think that sentiment is important.
Miriam Schapiro
#2. To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.
Woody Allen
#3. So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and if you agree that your now is no more valid than the now of someone located far away in space who can move freely, then reality encompasses all of the events in spacetime.
Brian Greene
#4. If my daughter's going to go out in the winter with summer clothes, I'm gonna question it. And at some point, I assume, if the conversation goes on long enough, if I can convince her, she will put on some warm clothes. And I think that sort of exchange is pretty valid.
Susanne Bier
#5. The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.
Bryan Stevenson
#6. You don't know anything about fear and hate," he told me. "Fear and hate aren't rational emotions, and they damn sure don't depend on the existence of valid reasons. People hate because they're afraid. People are afraid because they don't understand.
Bobby Adair
#7. The real trouble with Wikipedia lies exactly where its strength lies: its democratic impulse. In an arena where everyone's version of the facts is equally valid, and the opinions of specialists become marginalized, corporate and politicized interests are potentially empowered.
Michael Harris
#8. All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are "correct". For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.
Orson Scott Card
#9. I'm a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave
Grant Morrison
#10. I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.
Brad Bird
#11. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.
Ayn Rand
#12. Sadness, discomfort, frustration
they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?
Magda Gerber
#13. To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
Isaac Asimov
#14. Start by looking for what is valid in every human being.
Albert Camus
#15. Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.
Eric Maisel
#16. What you are feeling is not only completely valid but necessary - because it makes you so much more human.
Anonymous
#17. Swearing doesn't make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.
Shannon L. Alder
#18. If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
Gary Bauer
#19. Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
Steve Martin
#20. No matter what challenges you are faced with,or the opinions people have of you,rejection in and of itself from others is not a valid system to predict your future.
Scott Allan
#21. Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.
Theodore Roscoe
#22. Trauma stories are no more valid or noble than stories of love and heroism. Trauma stories are like black holes in space. They suck up all the light available.
Annette Vaillancourt
#23. That no matter how valid, how vital, one's belief system might be, one undermines that system and ultimately negates it when one gets rigid and dogmatic in one's adherence to it.
Tom Robbins
#24. And in most queer communities, regardless of one's sex or identity, people who are more masculine in gender expression are almost always viewed as more valid and attractive than their feminine counterparts.
Julia Serano
#25. If there is cheesy packaging around a universal truth, does that make the universal truth inside any less valid?
Daniel Waters
#26. Before you start calling your last thought about something more important, more valid, more true than your next thought. Remember, it's always your new thought that creates your reality. Always.
Neale Donald Walsch
#27. There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
Andrew Wiles
#28. The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them.
Noam Chomsky
#29. The first step in helping a suffering person is to acknowledge that the pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response.
Philip Yancey
#31. Each thing is valid and really there. It is through a field of such valid objects that I must pick my way, every day and in every way. I put a lot of effort into making such distinctions. I need to make them. I need to be very clear, in my own mind.
Margaret Atwood
#32. Here's what I say - when you don't know or can't know the answer to a question, why not believe the answer you like best? It's as valid as any of the others - and it might be right.
Jean Ferris
#33. To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.
Dave Barry
#34. What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
Tracey Emin
#35. Let children learn about different faiths, let them notice their incompatibility, and let them draw their own conclusions about the consequences of that incompatibility. As for whether they are 'valid,' let them make up their own minds when they are old enough to do so.
Richard Dawkins
#36. No phenomenon directly involving a frequency has yet been detected above approximately 10^12 cycles per second. We only deduce the higher frequencies from the energy of the particles, by a rule which assumes that the particle-wave idea of quantum mechanics is valid.
Richard Feynman
#37. Women's stories are valid, and they need to be developed in a way that appeals to a broader audience. And what is 'women's television' other than TV that women would enjoy watching?
Christina Cox
#38. For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them.
G.E. Moore
#39. I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.
J.G. Ballard
#40. Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.
Helen Van Slyke
#41. No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.
Lupita Nyong'o
#42. When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.
Roselyn Sanchez
#43. Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#44. There are things in life, though, which, however we look at them, are valid for everyone. Like love, for example.
Paulo Coelho
#45. Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.
Wei Jingsheng
#46. I understand that there are a few roles out there and tons of actors. Just because you don't get the big break doesn't mean you're not worthy or that what you have to offer isn't valid.
Grace Gealey
#47. Some of the biggest companies in the world have security that is only as good as a minimum-wage phone support worker who has the power to reset your account. And they have valid business reasons for giving them this power.
Anonymous
#48. When considering a career move, consider the most important assumptions that have to prove true and how you can swiftly and inexpensively test if they are valid. Also, remain realistic about the path ahead of you.
Clayton Christensen
#49. You can't cure ignorance based solely on the basis of a valid argument...
Gary A. Nilsen
#50. Anything, anything at all can be logical. For something to be logical, it just has to be a valid example of reasoning from some set of premises.
Mark C. Chu-Carroll
#51. The other problem is that the priority of many soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan is operational security: not getting killed. Now that is a very valid priority, but it has to be balanced against many other priorities, especially not killing too many locals in the process.
Yaroslav Trofimov
#52. I've heard a lot of variation of similar questions, but it's interesting to see the variations of audiences and how different people respond, so I think it's all valid. I don't take it personally at this point, which I probably would have at Sundance. But it's really thrilling.
James Ponsoldt
#53. Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that way arrive at final truth.
Gregory Bateson
#54. But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.
Dwight Yoakam
#55. Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).
J.R.R. Tolkien
#56. The girl next to me starts to cry when she sees the sprinkles.
I'm wondering if she's worried about the long-term side effects of consuming artificial food coloring.
It's a valid concern.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#57. Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything.
Iyanla Vanzant
#58. A bad hair day is not a valid excuse for calling in sick.
Tadahiko Nagao
#59. Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.
Robert Venturi
#60. I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying to use what part of me is valid in telling the story. I don't want to overcook it, you know? Sometimes it seems that's really where the work is.
Ryan Adams
#61. Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.
Stanley Forman Reed
#62. The Monkees are to the Beatles what 'Star Trek' is to NASA. They are both totally valid in their contexts.
Micky Dolenz
#63. Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
Abbas Kiarostami
#64. People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top.
Bill Maris
#65. I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go to war unless there's a real, valid American interest because I've seen the wounded soldiers.
Rand Paul
#66. This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives us the exact answer. This is a theorist's heaven- exact results with approximate methods.
Nathan Seiberg
#67. Music being "good or bad" is a flawed idea. Artists make what they want to make and we either connect with it or we don't. Just because we relate to some songs more than others doesn't make the others less valid, we just don't understand them. In fact, we aren't meant to, and that's all right.
Jacob Bannon
#68. That's your dad talking, Mal. Your life won't be any less valid, or any less legitimate, if you don't have kids.
Hanya Yanagihara
#69. Nathan seemed to have absorbed his sense of journalistic ethics from old movies about newspaper reporters. For Naomi, internet sampling ad scratching was a completely valid form of journalism, presenting no ethical clouds on its open-source horizon.
David Cronenberg
#70. It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.
Paul Watzlawick
#71. An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.
Alex Comfort
#72. Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One "internalizes" the Other as one acquires a sense of what one's own tradition is, what one belongs to and what gives valid shape to one's life.
Talal Asad
#73. You are not here to verify,/ Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity/ Or carry report. You are here to kneel/ Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more/ Than an order of words, the conscious occupation/ Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.
T. S. Eliot
#74. Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.
Suzanne Finnamore
#75. Like my grandmother always said, Your opinions are valid and important. Unless it's some stupid bullshit you're being shitty about, in which case you can just go fuck yourself.
Jenny Lawson
#76. Like ugly Asian babies, valid superstitions don't exist. At best, any perceived effect of a superstition is you merely psyching yourself out. Think of it as an asshole placebo.
Orlando Winters
#77. Her instincts were valid, another instinct told her.
V.S. Kemanis
#78. Validation is easy - you run your site through a validator, and it's either valid or it isn't. The rest of the stuff, such as whether my logo or the biggest headline should be the h1 in my HTML, isn't so easy and is subject to interpretation.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#79. In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is beacause there is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dis-sect out. It continues and it is always valid. Each time you re-read you see or learn something new.
Ernest Hemingway,
#80. I do think that the instant nature of the reaction now, I do think it has an effect, that people's instant reactions to things are valid and valuable. But they're not always right, and they're not always capturing the full reality.
Donald Verrilli Jr.
#81. You're never too old to go after the dreams God has put in your heart. And for the record, you're never too young either. Age is never a valid excuse.
Mark Batterson
#82. If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.
Cassandra Clare
#83. In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
Patrick O'Brian
#84. The purpose of a free press, in which I believe believe it or not, is so that people can make rational decisions in a democracy. They'd already perverted the process so bad that was hard, but the point is valid.
John Ringo
#85. After a while, you start to believe that your opinions are more valid than everyone else's. It can be hard to be humble about making really good music; you really believe that you're a savior to music. That's why bands don't like each other.
Matt Tong
#86. What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.
Pablo Picasso
#87. Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.
Joyce Brothers
#88. While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
Ian Hornak
#89. Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
Ramana Maharshi
#90. the idea that someone with a different upbringing, from a different part of the country, with a different outlook and a different viewpoint, might actually have something valid to say, something worth listening to.
Bill O'Reilly
#91. Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.
Jimmy Page
#92. It seemed to me ... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.
Evan Hunter
#93. In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice.
James Poniewozik
#94. Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.
Rick Warren
#95. It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all folk beliefs are equally valid - if we're talking not about an internal mindset, but about understanding of the external reality.
Carl Sagan
#96. The general assumption, which I think is a valid one, is that a lot of the major media were on their heels a little bit and prone to share the grief of the nation and to give Bush all the support it could.
Seymour Hersh
#97. Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
Jack Kingston
#98. Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
Maya Lin
#99. It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain the what is the essence of the attraction of gravity?
Charles Darwin
#100. What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.
Robin McKinley
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