Quotes About Opinion

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

Charly Cruz asked him if he liked Spike Lee. Yes, said Fate, although he didn't really. "He seems Mexican," said Charly Cruz. "Maybe," said Fate. "That's an interesting way to look at it." "And what about Woody Allen?" "I like him," said Fate. "He seems Mexican too...

Y después nos pusimos a hablar de política, que era un tema que a Cesárea le gustaba, aunque cada vez menos. Cómo si la política y ella hubieran enloquecido juntas.

According to Dieter Hellfeld, a member of the Swedish Academy

For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is...

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

I mean, I don't want to pass judgment—I just wish my husband didn't shoot deer." "Oh, Mel, don't worry. I've been hunting with your husband—the deer are completely safe.

They weren't bad books," Phin countered patiently. "They were books that you didn't enjoy. It's not the same thing at all. The only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a 'good book' for someone.

All books are good,' he said... 'They weren't bad books,' Phin countered patiently. 'They were books that you didn't enjoy. It's not the same thing at all. The only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a 'good book' for someone.' I nodded. I couldn't fault his logic.

You can critique her writing, but not her lifestyle.

All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true.

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

Women shouldn't be in combat, said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. Neither should men, in my opinion.

Nevertheless, liking and disliking do not constitute proof any more than hearsay does.

Then he had accused her of sleeping with her women friends. That had broken something in her at last, some will to desire his good opinion. How could you argue sense into someone who believed something not because it was true, but because he was an idiot?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder…

over her pink flamingo yard ornament." My private opinion was that a pink flamingo yard ornament deserved demolishing by any available means. A comment left unsaid, of course. Thea's face

No one thinks you're an idiot. That's just dumb.

I have an opinion about holy war, which in general I must keep to myself. I have no wish to be known as a heretic. It is....that if a war can be holy, then God cannot. At best a war can only be necessary.

but being human, there would be differences of opinion, for the ideal situation may exist but not ideal people. Wise

For Peirce, inquiry is always communal—it is the median of many observations that gives the position of the star—and the last analysis really is the last. In Peirce's cosmology, everyone's beliefs have to be the same in the end, because all opinion must converge.

But it did her good, for those whose opinion had real value gave her the criticism which is an author's best education; and when the first soreness was over, she could laugh at her poor little book, yet believe in it still, and feel herself the wiser and stronger for the buffeting she had received.

he rumpled it up in the droll way he used to do, and Jo liked it rampantly erect better than flat, because

Did he like celery?' 'Does anybody?