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Quotes About Opinions

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.
~ Mavis Gallant
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horseraces.
~ S. L. Clemens
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
~ Joseph Joubert
Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.
~ Paul Chatfield
There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso, those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.
~ John White
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.
~ John F. Kennedy
The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . .
~ Joseph Gies
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
~ Alexander Pope
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
~ Lord Francis Jeffrey
When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.
~ Chester Bowles
I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.
~ Charles Lamb
I have admired W.C. Fields since the day he advanced upon Baby LeRoy with an ice pick. Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
~ Leo Rosten
The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
~ Marcel Proust
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
~ Ethel Barrett
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
~ Pauline Kael
Ladies and gentlemen, you can't please everyone. Take my girlfriend - I think she's the most remarkable woman in the world. . . . That's me . . . But to my wife . . .
~ Jackie Mason
Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.
~ Fay Weldon
opinions, and convictions when they do not mirror what I believe.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
There is one faction that believes George Bush is a simpleton with the brain capacity of plankton, and that is why we are in the mess we're in. Then there's another faction that believes George Bush is not only smarter than plankton, but that he is a diabolical mastermind, possibly even the spawn of Satan himself, and that is why we are in the mess we're in.
~ J. Maarten Troost
Many of these books were quite good, most were middle-of-the-road, and a few brought to mind a review by Dorothy Parker, in which she stated, "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
A lot of the general population are wrong.
~ J.D. Robb
I don't like the man--less now than I did before--but I can't help but admire his ... stamina. That's dick-thinking. Well ... Roarke glanced down at his own. It does have opinions.
~ J.D. Robb
tyler said she was good, but she was having sex with him, so his vote didn't count
~ Jaci Burton
strong opinions, weakly held.
~ Jack D. Schwager