Opinion Quotes - Page 31

• In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions.

  Harlan Ellison

  Voice, Ugly, Elitist

  Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

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• Where did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz. You're a constituent--you have every entitlement to participate in the actions of the universe, and to let your feelings be known. So, put your opinion out there. Make your case. Believe me--it will at least be taken into consideration.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Prayer, Believe, Taken

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.34, A&C Black

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• I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man.

  Ralph Ellison

  Men, Years, Trying

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.586, Vintage

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• In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

  John Green

  Love Is, Trying, Heroism

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• There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

  Terry Goodkind

  Cat, Thinking, People

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.97, Head of Zeus

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• Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by opinions about work.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Men, World, Want

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• Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

  Hannah Arendt

  Responsibility, Keys, Effort

  Hannah Arendt (1973). “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Long, Feelings, Weight

  John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (2015). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.126, University of Chicago Press

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• We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Giants, Machines, Devices

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Belive that on occasion that much death can become tedious.

  Michelle Sagara

  Killing Someone, Effort, Manners

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 2: Cast in Secret\Cast in Fury\Cast in Silence”, p.955, MIRA

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• Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Nature, Science

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• The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Running, Men, Wish

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.19, 谷月社

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• The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Suffering, Coward

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.23, 谷月社

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• Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe to them collective crimes, collective acts and opinions. "The Serbs have massacred…", "The English have devastated…", "The Jews have confiscated…", "The Blacks have torched", "The Arabs refuse…". We blithely express sweeping judgments on whole peoples, calling them "hardworking" and "ingenious", or "lazy", "touchy", "sly", "proud", or "obstinate". And sometimes this ends in bloodshed." – Amin Maalouf "On Identity

  Amin Maalouf

  People, Lazy, Together

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• I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Differences, Doe, World

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• It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Men, People

  Oscar Wilde (1977). “The illustrated Oscar Wilde”

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• I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one's hands . . . They admit that the inventors of writing imitated the twenty-five natural symbols, but they maintain that this application is accidental and that books in themselves mean nothing. This opinion - we shall see - is not altogether false.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Jorge Luis Borges (1962). “Ficciones”, p.81, Grove Press

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• Kim's gripe with humans was nothing new. She, like the rest of the Guardians, put her life on the line every time she faced demons and was entitles to her own opinion. Sometimes I wish she would tall in love with a human. That would shut her up.

  P. C. Cast

  Wish, Lines, Kim

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• A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

  George Eliot

  Cynicism, Fellows, Altruism

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.76, Penguin

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• As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.” “And you're still not sorry,” I reply. "I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks. “No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sorry, Lying, Want

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• See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fate, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Belief, Conflict, Violent

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

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• You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or love or mercy, do you?" "I haven't seen enough to form an opinion." "But you believe in the devil?" "When I'm sitting in a car with him, yes," she said.

  Anne Stuart

  Believe, Car, Devil

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• I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

  William Golding

  Passionate, Ease, Judgment

  William Golding (2013). “To the Ends of the Earth”, p.414, Faber & Faber

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• Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will consult foreign law and foreign-court rulings for guidance in certain circumstances. Of course, policymakers are free to consult whatever they want, but not justices. They're limited to the Constitution and the law.

  Mark Levin

  Law, Justice, Records

  "Men in Black". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. February 1, 2005.

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