Pastoral Resources

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens.

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.

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.

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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.

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.