Quotes About Opinion

Why shouldn't Miss Martineau's apocalyptic housemaid tell us whether Flush has a soul, and what is its 'future destination'? As to the fact of his soul, I have long had a strong opinion on it. The 'grand peut-être,' to which 'without revelation' the human argument is reduced, covers dog-nature with the sweep of its fringes.

There's always somebody who feels like they have a right to judge.

The stupid person's idea of the clever person. [on Aldous Huxley, in Spectator magazine, 1936]

She was anxious to be someone, and, no one having ever voiced a prejudice in her hearing without impressing her, had come to associate prejudice with identity. You could not be someone without disliking things.

And what is truth, since it changes according to each individual's perception?

I'll not listen to reason…. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

Mrs. Loraine's] sweet lips folded themselves into a straight line, and Stella thought briefly how odd it was that thinking differently about God tended to make even the nicest people not very sympathetic towards each other.

Wenn du das Schreiben zu deinem Beruf machen willst, dann musst du anfangen, dich auf dein eigenes Urteil zu verlassen. Du darfst dir ruhig anhören, was andere davon halten, aber letztlich ist richtig, was du für richtig hältst.

Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.

My mother did not like Unitarians; she thought they were atheists who didn't want to be left out of the fun of Christmas

A Republican, then?" Jack asked, after a moment. "Oh, for God's sake." Olive stopped walking, looked at him through her sunglasses. "I didn't say moron. You mean because we have a cowboy for a president? Or before that an actor who played a cowboy? Let me tell you, that idiot ex-cocaine-addict was never a cowboy. He can wear all the cowboy hats he wants. He's a spoiled brat to the manor born. And he makes me puke.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

I don't think he is a bad man," Clemenceau would sometimes say of Wilson, "but I have not yet made up my mind as to how much of him is good."35

The military masters of Germany have filled our unsuspecting communities with vicious spies and conspirators and have sought to corrupt the opinion of our people . . . [These persons] seek to undermine the Government with false professions of loyalty to its principles."23

Wilson's ringing words on receiving the news—"a little band of wilful men representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible"—

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.

En eso, como muchos mexicanos, Huerta es injusto —opinó—. Gran parte de lo que se ha hecho de bueno lo hicieron los españoles. Incluso a pesar de las antiguas crueldades y la codicia actual.

No voy a analizar los años de gobierno corridos desde la toma violenta del poder en 1945 hasta la pérdida violenta del mismo en 1948, porque estoy demasiado mezclado con esos sucesos para poder opinar sobre ellos con la necesaria imparcialidad.

Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin'. And if we have an opinion, you know you're gonna hear it.

Even though the National Jury Project had done a study of Middlesex County and had found that eighty-three percent of the people had heard about my case in the media and seventy percent had already formulated an opinion about my guilt, the kourt maintained that i could receive a fair trial.

I don't want 'constructive criticism'. I want praise.