Quotes About Opportunism

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab as occasion serves.

The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...

It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl!

You've got to kiss arse to get somewhere, to learn. Clock-watchers are no good at kissing arse.

The DMK is like a chameleon. There is no doubt about that.

I also believe that he who adapts his policies to suit the times will succeed, and he who does not, will fail.

Because you took advantage of a sinner because you took advantage because you took because you took advantage of my disadvantage …

He was beginning to think Mr Piper the philosophy teacher was right: man was not born good, he was just out for himself, and when he got the chance he would laugh at those less fortunate, those unlucky ones who kept on flunking French.

After the war, it just seemed natural to take what you could take wherever you could take it. There was only so much blood you could sell for $10 a pint. I

The usual deal: whatever's going, if it pays, we'll take it. Sorry state of affairs, but that's how it is. Ain't a kind or just 'verse, and nobody's owed a living.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

Once your blood's in the water, everyone's a shark

opportunism" into "fervent zeal.

A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.

I try to do different things as much as I can. I feel like every actor, there's a limited number of tricks and go-tos. The real good stuff you can't get to unless it's something you haven't done before. So I try to make sure each thing is slightly different. Unless it's for the money. Then I don't care.

Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.

Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.

Half of 'Mudbound' were shots I stole in between other scenes.

What all these stories show is that no law of nature forces native animals to prefer their natural foods, or even to recognize them. Some do (say koalas on gum leaves) but many don't. A currawong guzzling grapes might not look quite natural to us, but the bird doesn't see it that way. By nature it is an opportunist. For our native wildlife, the foreign plants and animals flourishing in Australia today afford untold opportunities too good to pass by.

But nothing works better, nor reeks more strongly of racist and crass political opportunism, than the attacks leveled against immigrants of color, mostly from Mexico and other points in the global South, and the way so many within the chattering class (and even the ranks of elected officials) hope to whip us into hysteria about their presence within our shores.

The only old man I am interested in is one who is worth at least £300million and is 103. Obviously you don't want them to hang around too long, you want to be able to spend his money.

Individuals move and shift from one party to another simply on their aspirations for office.

Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.