Quotes About Opinions

I'm a staunch Independant. Every time I think I am a Republican, they do something greedy, and every time I think I am a Democrat, they go and do someting stupid.

I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.

People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.

Economists are said to disagree too much but in ways that are too much alike: If eight sleep in the same bed, you can be sure that, like Eskimos, when they turn over, they'll all turn over together.

We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.

There are voices that are lovely for various reasons or annoying for other reasons [...]

You do not dress to please yourself; you dress to please others.

I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

He chose for his hero a youth nourished in dreams of liberty, some of whose actions are in direct opposition to the opinions of the world, but who is animated throughout by an ardent love of virtue, and a resolution to confer the boons of political and intellectual freedom on his fellow-creatures. On Percy Shelley's The Revolt of Islam

I thought wryly that nobody ever wanted advice anyway: all that most people sought was ratification of their own views.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a snob. I don't have a problem with Applebee's per se. But I think we can all agree, as a civilized society, that lives shouldn't change there. Significant

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a snob. I don't have a problem with Applebee's per se. But I think we can all agree, as a civilized society, that lives shouldn't change there.

I never fully realized how much a New England birth in itself was worth, but I am happy that that was my lot. I have felt it so keenly these last few days. Dear old New England, with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions; the home of all that is good and noble.

the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

I'm still going to eat a lot of tacos," Nate said. "But I'm going to do it judgmentally

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.

I don't like people who try to say only what they think I think.

He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture postcards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read; it was this that he had to address, this immateriality which could not hear him or answer, deaf and impersonal like a wad of cotton.

The creator stands on his own judgment. The parasite follows the opinions of others… Look at history. Everything thing we have, every great achievement has come from the independent work of some independent mind. Every horror and destruction came from attempts to force men into a herd of brainless, soulless robots. Without personal rights, without personal ambition, without will, hope, or dignity. It is an ancient conflict. It has another name: the individual against the collective.