Quotes About Opinions

And for all her theoretical desire to make their house a refuge for him and for whomever he liked to invite, she had never learned to keep her opinions of people to herself. When she was bored by callers, she would beg Do you mind if I run up to bed now--such a headache, with a bright friendliness which fooled no one save herself, and which left their guests chilled and awkward.

Or should he damn Fran instead? Fran to whom life was a fashion- show.

While he was bored by free verse and cubism, he thought rather well of Dreiser, Cabell, and so much of Proust as he had rather laboriously mastered.

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears, that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.

Honestly, do these people have nothing better to do than engage in stupid mindless speculation about people they don't know?

Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are right To warn me against losing mine. I cannot say— I hope that I shall never want to say!— that you Have reasoned badly. Yet there are other men Who can reason, too; and their opinions might be helpful. You are not in a position to know everything That people say or do, or what they feel: Your temper terrifies them—everyone Will tell you only what you like to hear.

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner v

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.", 2005]

I'm very happy that major players are always giving their opinions about my life, my game. I am very thankful for that.

What others think of you doesn't matter as much as what you think of yourself.

We're not afraid of who we are. We're afraid of who we think we're not. We strive, then, not to become the best version of ourselves. We strive instead for what we think will make us most worthy in the eyes and opinions of others.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error.

De la misma manera, nuestro mundo está lleno de personas que tienen sus propias nociones acerca de Dios y de cómo agradarle. Se ha puesto de moda el tener una teoría elaborada por uno mismo.

Political views are influenced not only by forces believed to be irrelevant but by forces that have not entered into conscious awareness.

I like it because their view of government is essentially the same as mine, and I like it because they're regular people who, but for the shock of Obama's radicalism, probably would not have gotten active in politics.

Mutual encouragement in the indulgence of hazardous thoughts and opinions which flatter our wishes or propensities is a lure which few minds can resist.

there are as many nuts on the left as there are on the right, and in the long run, the lefties are probably more dangerous.

Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people; yet of all the actions of our life, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present