Opinion Quotes - Page 26

• Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

  Tennessee Williams

  Guilty, Cruelty, Deliberate

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• ...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Doe, Lapses

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1950). “The World as Will and Idea”

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• If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

  George Eliot

  Air, Stupidity, Conviction

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.30, George Eliot

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• I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Men, My Boyfriend, Technique

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• I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Doe, Way, Blame

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• Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Years, Long, Childhood

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Green Mars”, p.391, Spectra

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• In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Jobs, Views, Creating

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• That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

  Jonathan Swift

  Criticism, Passages, Mistaken

  Satires and Personal Writings Thoughts on Various Subjects

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• Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

  Jane Austen

  Sorry, Book, Thinking

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.82

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• I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary – not reality, which is only a secondary consideration.

  Machado de Assis

  Reality, Two, Consideration

  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.6, University of Texas Press

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• Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Men, Law

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• I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spring, Eye, Past

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.82, Virginia Woolf

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• In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Virtue, Moderation, Overrated

  Barbara Taylor Bradford (1987). “A Woman of Substance”, Bantam

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• Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Pride, Want

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• That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.

  Barack Obama

  Teaching, Self, Issues

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.190, Canongate Books

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• Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic.

  Bill Maher

  Doctors, Tvs, Paranoid

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• They think they're better than everyone else." "No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence." Kyle looked at Simon. "Does he always talk like this?" "Yes.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Doe, Fallen Angels

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Long, Noise, Bears

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.65, Publishdrive

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• NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree that newspapers should only be able to publish government-approved material. Almost one out of five said people should not be allowed to voice unpopular opinions..This is the first generation after September 11th, who discovered news during a 'watch what you say' administration...George W. Bush once asked, 'is our children learning.' No, they isn't. A better question would be, 'is our teacher's teaching?

  Bill Maher

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Stubborn, Captains, Knows

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.117, Macmillan

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• Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes and opinions, in ther loves and ideas. Zora woke up this morning hopeful that a transformation of this kind might have visited her in the night, but, finding it hadn't, she did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

  Zadie Smith

  Girl, Morning, Night

  Zadie Smith (2006). “On Beauty”, p.142, Penguin UK

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• So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Atmosphere, Subtle, Felt

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.322, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Prejudice, World, Court

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.96, Penguin

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• I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.

  Portia de Rossi

  Acceptance, Helping Others, Diversity

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.

  David Hume

  Men, Decision, Miracle

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.88, VM eBooks

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