The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
~By Oliver Cromwell ~
It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.
~By James Payn ~
So many men, so many opinions.
~By Terence ~
Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
~By Otis Williams ~
My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.
~By Ruben Studdard ~
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.
~By Clarence Thomas ~
They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.
~By Roy Moore ~
I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.
~By Charlotte Rampling ~
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
~By Josh Billings ~
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
~By Frederick William Robertson ~
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
~By Ernestine L. Rose ~
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
~By A. E. Housman ~
And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.
~By Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.
~By James Woods ~
Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.
~By Millicent Fawcett ~
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.
~By Pat Toomey ~
It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.
~By Michael York ~
Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
~By James Reston ~
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
People's opinions don't interfere with me.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
~By George Byron ~
It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
~By Eleanor Clift ~
I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
~By Maimonides ~
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He's fiercly loyal and a true and total gentleman. He's very shy but has very strong opinions. He's into everything, wardrobe, hair, script, casting.
~By Stephen Collins ~
We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
~By Luke Scott ~
If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.
~By Shirley Manson ~
Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.
~By Bill Lipinski ~
I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.
~By Penn Jillette ~
I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.
~By Matt Lucas ~
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
~By Gary Coleman ~
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
~By Josh Billings ~
People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.
~By Joan Blades ~
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
~By Zhuangzi ~
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
~By John Jay Chapman ~
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.
~By Chick Corea ~
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.
~By George Stigler ~
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
~By Edward Bernays ~
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
~By William Temple ~
If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.
~By Jon Fishman ~
Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
~By Jim McKay ~
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
~By Lord Acton ~
Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.
~By Ben Affleck ~
I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
~By Neil Young ~
This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.
~By Shannen Doherty ~
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
~By Ernest Renan ~
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.
~By Toi Derricotte ~
People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.
~By Judy Chicago ~
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
~By Jane Austen ~
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
~By Luke Ford ~
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
~By Patrick Leahy ~
To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.
~By Milton R. Sapirstein ~
I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
~By Martin Luther ~
How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.
~By Cass Elliot ~
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
~By David Attenborough ~
It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.
~By Yitzhak Navon ~
I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.
~By Amy Irving ~
I love Daredevil. I thought it was enjoyable. Okay? There were critical issues with it, and that's why I wear black, some people wear red - we are entitled to our opinions.
~By Avi Arad ~
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
~By Bob Wells ~
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
~By John Tyler ~
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
~By Lord Byron ~
Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.
~By Stockwell Day ~
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
~By Barbara Deming ~
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
~By Gore Vidal ~
I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
~By George W. Bush ~
Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
~By Peter Benenson ~
I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
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