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 by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.
General Murray: I may as well tell you, it's my considered opinion and that of my staff that any time spent on the Bedouin will be time wasted.They're a nation of sheep-stealers. Mr. Dryden: They did attack Medina. General Murray: And the Turks made ...
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defence of religious faith hinges upon action. If the action required or ...
When I was a teen, I liked to hang out around popular girls, I thought they had some magic, secrets that only they knew and I wanted to learn it... Though pretty soon I realized... popular girls were just like spam... they promised a lot, but only th...
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.
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
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.
At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
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.'
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
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.
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itsel...
