Opinion Quotes - Page 29

• Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.

  Simone Elkeles

  Thinking, Stink, Simile

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• I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

  Colum McCann

  Book, Taken, Mean

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• In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

  Carrie Fisher

  Nice, Able, Problem

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.

  Bailey White

  Flower, Vases, Might

  Bailey White (2009). “Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Political Opinions, Views, Coats

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.8, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Simple, People

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.83, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

  Russell Brand

  Crush, Ordinary, Mediocrity

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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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• Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

  Robert B. Parker

  Different Experiences, Said, Rooted

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• Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question "How do I look?

  Haruki Murakami

  Husband, Views, People

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1997.

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• I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.

  Dick Francis

  Views, Evil, Interesting

  Dick Francis (2010). “Comeback”, p.16, Penguin

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• As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.

  David Eddings

  Long, Motive, Concerned

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• You can tell how much someone respects you by how much he respects your opinion. If he doesn't respect your opinion, he won't respect you.

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  Sherry Argov

  Principles, Ifs

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart”

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• When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Thinking, Confusing, Patterns

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• But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?" "You can usually tell," said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mistake, Fall, Heart

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• The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

  Eric Hoffer

  Play, Ideas, Quality

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of a great worldwide human effort to know ourselves and each other a great deal better, well enough to concede that no man has a monopoly on right or virtue any more than any man has a corner on duplicity and evil and so forth. If people, and races and nations, would start with that self-manifest truth, then I think that the world could sidestep the sort of corruption which I have involuntarily chosen as the basic, allegorical theme of my plays as a whole.

  Tennessee Williams

  Thinking, Men, Duplicity

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

  Libba Bray

  Ordinary, Sucker

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• Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

  Daniel Handler

  First Impression, May, Changes Over Time

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Daniel Handler, September 30, 1999.

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• To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows

  Gregory Maguire

  People, Irises, Might

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• There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Law, Trying

  "A Long Fatal Love Chase".

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• My father has a high opinion of his opinion

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Father, Humor

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• It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

  Jane Austen

  Integrity, Men, Principles

  Jane Austen (2016). “Emma”, p.386, Re-Image Publishing

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• Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Thinking, Perfection, Fullness

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