He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.
Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.
We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.
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.
