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

    Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.217, Open Road Media
  • Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

    Liars   Lying   Tyrants  
    Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.226, Open Road Media
  • I think when people struggle with the problem of trying to understand the art world as an idea, they misunderstand it. They think it's a world of visionaries or opportunists. But it also includes people who want to take part in this cultural exercise but don't have the required stuff, they don't have the ideas or the production.

    Art   Struggle   Exercise  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.

    Crazy   Mad   Opportunist  
    Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.48, City Lights Books
  • Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around

    Life   People   Wish  
  • The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.

    "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.
  • Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

  • The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

  • 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.

    War   Soldier   Would Be  
    Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober Plath (1975). “Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

  • The backpackers are back on the bandwagon like this was my comeback season back, back in the day

    Song: Over My Dead Body, Album: Take Care, 2011
  • Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

  • Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  • 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.

    Truth   Real   Gone  
  • Throw em a bone and they want a steak.

    Rapper   Hip Hop   Ems  
    Drizzy @Drake, twitter.com. November 2, 2011.
  • America is another name for opportunity.

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

  • 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.

    Class   People   Long  
    Tom Vilsack's at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
  • You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love

  • All my first dates are interrupted by my fame because every picture taken is a fan that you can gain.

    Taken   Humble   Fans  
    Song: The Calm, Album: So Far Gone, 2009
  • He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

    William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.7, 谷月社
  • I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

  • There`s one way of looking at the Trump phenomenon that he`s essentially a Doofus or he is an opportunist.

    Way   Opportunist   Trump  
    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • 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.

    Death   Evil   Dying  
  • A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that. But some of it I've found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We've always laid everything out.

    Views   Band   Honest  
    "Nick Rhodes on Duran Duran's staying power". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. September 25, 2011.
  • There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

    Men   Stupidity   World  
  • We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

    Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Exceptional performers are masterful opportunists, keenly alert to opportunity!

    Twitter post from Dec 13, 2016
  • When I was small child, all that belonged to conservative society was fashionable, and no republicans were welcome in the smartersalons. People living in such a milieu could imagine that the impossibility of ever inviting an "opportunist", much less a "radical", was a thing that would last forever, like gas lamps and horse-drawn omnibuses. But similar to kaleidoscopes turning from time to time, society successively places in various ways elements which were thought to be immutable and creates a new composition.

  • Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

    1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.35
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