The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
Don't ever be afraid to show who you really are, because as long as you are happy with yourself, no one else's opinion matters.
I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighter, richer, with no commitments of ever meeting again. I want to learn how to stand wherever with whoever and still feel stable. I want to learn how to...
Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to avow them and half doubtful if they can after all be right. Put me back among my Friends and in half an hour - in ten minutes - these same views and sta...
I wish I worried about my uncle's opinions, and had problems to work out with my mom. Hell, I'd settle for knowing what her voice sounded like." I put a hand on her shoulder. "Trite but true—you don't know what you have until it's gone. People chan...
It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the grown man - the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated off-spring - you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes an...
Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. She took me in, fed, dressed me, but most importantly, she treated me with respect. She taught me that my abilities were nothing to be ashamed of, not...
In the very first month of Indian Opinion, I realized that the sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper press is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countrysides and devastates crops, even so an unc...
I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects bo...
Caesar Flickerman: We have seen a lot of tears here tonight, but I see no tears in Johanna's eyes. Johanna, you are angry. Tell me why. Johanna Mason: Yeah, well, yes! I am angry. You know, I'm getting totally screwed over here. Caesar Flickerman: Uh...
Reporter: And what, in the opinion of Your Highness, is the outlook for friendship among nations? Princess Ann: I have every faith in it... as I have faith in relations between people. Joe Bradley: May I say, speaking for my own... press service: we ...
Sometimes I think you don't really believe the things you say; you just like the sound of yourself having opinions.
Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.
Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.
Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....
Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
