Quotes About Opinions

Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

Contrary to all my own opinions and convictions, Jesus Christ will tell me what love toward the brethren really is.

All that matters is whether one opts for Christ - not Christian opinions.

Unfortunately I'm not on the same wavelength as Maria yet in the literary sphere. She writes me such good, natural letters, but she reads…Rilke, Bergengruen, Binding, Wiechert; I regard the last three as being below our level and the first as being decidedly unhealthy.

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.

My impressions of contemporary France were mixed. I personally felt that it was quite provincial.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

Everything is political," O'Brien says. "Especially these days.

Politics has clogged the air of my life.

27 per cent of Canadians think that Ottawa deals with issues that are important to them.

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Leave people to their opinions and judgements. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours.

Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.

Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.

The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world...But you have to do what's right for you.

Oh and I also got cross at a dinner once when this woman was going on and on about how she would never read on download, that there was nothing like a real book and – I promise I normally am never rude to people but she was being truly insufferable – I said, 'Well, they're really only for people who read a lot' which was mean of me but quite satisfying also.

once when this woman was going on and on about how she would never read on download, that there was nothing like a real book and – I promise I normally am never rude to people but she was being truly insufferable – I said, 'Well, they're really only for people who read a lot' which was mean of me but quite satisfying also.