Opinion Quotes - Page 18

• I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Differences, People, Body

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• Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

  Sargent Shriver

  Men, Realization, Worthy

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• I have a really big mouth, I have a lot of opinions and I will be heard.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Mouths, Bigs, Heard

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• I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.

  Jessica Simpson

  Book, Self, Noble

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• The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

  Adam Smith

  Change, Numbers, Facts

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• The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

  Stephen Sondheim

  People, Adaptation, Stage

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• I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Differences, Judging, Prejudice

  "A Latina Judge's Voice". Address to the 'Raising the Bar' symposium at the UC Berkeley School of Law, www.berkeley.edu. 2001.

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• If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

  Thomas Sowell

  Groups, Want, Honest

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• Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

  Herbert Spencer

  Feelings, Intuition, Determined

  'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 4, ch. 30, 8

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• Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right.

  Lysander Spooner

  Honesty, Men, Giving

  Lysander SPOONER (1836). “The Deist's Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity, Etc”, p.6

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• Now it is clear, that if the government can exclude, on account either of their opinions or feelings, any persons thus drawn by lot, the trial is no longer a trial by 'the country,' but only by a portion of the country.

  Lysander Spooner

  Country, Government, Feelings

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings”

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• They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.

  Kate Atkinson

  Strong, Heart, Pieces

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.153, Random House

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• I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

  Charles Stanley

  People, Church, Vote

  Interview with Michael Foust, www.bpnews.net. October 24, 2003.

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• He that Opposes his own Judgment against the Current of the Times, ought to be back'd with unanswerable Truths; and he that has that Truth on his Side, is a Fool, as well as a Coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the Currency or Multitude of other Mens Opinions.

  Daniel Defoe

  Coward, Fool, Sides

  "A Collection of the Writings of the Author of The True-born English-man".

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• There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

  Laurence Sterne

  Christian, Support, World

  Laurence Sterne (1860). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc”, p.705

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• Freedom rings where opinions clash.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom, Clash, Rings

  Quoted by Ted Weiss during a Congressional hearing, November 13, 1985.

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• I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.

  Tom Stoppard

  Mean, People, Coins

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• Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

  George Strait

  Singers, Males, All Time

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• On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

  Barbra Streisand

  Thinking, Political Opinions, People

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• The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Time, Age

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• In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

  Taylor Swift

  Play, Get Better, Way

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• Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  President, Drs, Conservative

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• When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

  Taylor Swift

  Years, Singers, My Favorite

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• Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Men, Anticipation, Conscience

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• I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Change, Leadership, Men

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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