Valid
Strong; powerful; efficient.
Having sufficient strength or force; founded in truth; capable of being justified, defended, or supported; not weak or defective; sound; good; efficacious; as, a valid argument; a valid objection.
Having legal strength or force; executed with the proper formalities; incapable of being rightfully overthrown or set aside; as, a valid deed; a valid covenant; a valid instrument of any kind; a valid claim or title; a valid marriage.
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Valid Quotations
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Napoleon Bonaparte
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
Henry A. Kissinger
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
David Ogilvy
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Susan Sontag
There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
Ella Maillart
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
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Simone Weil
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.
Helmut Newton
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
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.
Mark Rothko
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
Andrew Wiles
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
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
Edward T. Hall
The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.
Michael Nesmith
A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.
Herman Kahn
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
Maya Lin
The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
J. Philippe Rushton
The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.
Jerry B. Jenkins
Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
Morley Safer
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
Salvatore Quasimodo
It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense.
Ornette Coleman
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
Adam Savage
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
I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration.
Todd Rundgren
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
George Jean Nathan
I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.
Sonny Rollins
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valid in Danish is gyldig
valid in Dutch is gangbaar, geldig, geldend, vigerend
valid in French is valable
valid in Hungarian is indokolt, megalapozott
valid in Italian is valevole
valid in Norwegian is gyldig
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