Quotes About Opinions

I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty.

He is in many ways quite a right-wing isolationist. It's because some people are naïve enough to confuse this with anti-imperialism that they think of him as being rather more to the left than he really is.

He would appear never to have diluted his opinions in the hope of seeing his byline disseminated to the paying customers; this alone is a clue to why he still matters.

The great reward, if that's the right word, lies in the people you will meet when engaged in the same work, the lessons you will learn, and the confidence you will acquire from having some experiences and convictions of your own - to set against the received thirdhand opinions of so many others.

The great thing about writing a book is that it brings you into contact with people whose opinions you should have canvassed before you ever pressed pen to paper. They write to you. They telephone you. They come to your bookstore events and give you things to read that you should have read already. It's this dialectical process that makes me glad I chose the profession I did: a free education that goes on for a lifetime.

Have you never met anyone who works in a record store? There is no greater repository of unjustified arrogance in the world.

Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have but one sentiment now: that is, we have a government, and laws, and a flag, and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.

Las redes sociales le dan el derecho de hablar a legiones de idiotas que antes hablaban sólo en el bar después de un vaso de vino, sin dañar a la comunidad. Entonces eran rápidamente silenciados, pero ahora tienen el mismo derecho a hablar que un Premio Nobel. Es la invasión de los imbéciles

political opinions were an arsenal of weapons from which he picked up those which served his need at a certain moment of conflict. When conscientious

Here, too, many would scold at the government, but for the opposite reason, that it couldn't keep its mind made up; it was composed of polite old gentlemen who couldn't bear to disturb things or to displease their subordinates, the bureaucrats, no matter what election results came in.

and it was extraordinary to me that some of the newspapers could have found good words for the butchery on the coast. But people are like that bout places in which they aren't really interested and where thy don't have to live.

Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime patriotic, democratic, and human faith, which, in our days, should be the very foundation of all generous intelligence.

where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

Red is an all-embracing colour,' said the bishop. 'How fortunate that those who despise it in a bonnet revere it in a hat.

En France, que de gens à longues oreilles : ânes en littérature, lièvres en politique !

Properly speaking, he no longer held opinions; he had sympathies. To which party did he belong? To the party of humanity.

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Cuando se acordaba de sus opiniones anteriores, que eran sólo de ayer y que, no obstante, le parecían ya tan antiguas, se indignaba y sonreía.

Come si chiamano i vostri due amici? – Pietro il Grassatore e Battista Gabbagonzi. – Uhm! - fe' l'arcidiacono; - son nomi che si addicono a un'opera buona come una bombarda ad un altar maggiore.

Thus, in speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom.

While she respected his intellect, sometimes his inability to err could be stifling. It left no room for Inès to have thoughts or opinions that differed from his.

Why did Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan begin remarking frequently during the 1980s and '90s that people were entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts? Because until then, it hadn't seemed like a serious problem in America.

You're entitled to your own opinions and your own fantasies, but not your own facts—especially if your fantastical facts hurt people.