Opinion Quotes

People here are funny. They work so hard at living they forget how to live. : Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Robert Riskin

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
Dr. Haim Ginott

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
John W. Whitehead

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Jean Paul Sartre

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
Dame Agatha Christie

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

We all boil at different degrees.
Clint Eastwood

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.
Angelina Jolie

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.
Angelina Jolie

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
Cher

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
George Orwell

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
Jimmy Buffett

Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy.
Jennifer Aniston

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Every one lives by selling something.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anne Frank

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Acting is really cool.
Anne Frank

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
Thomas Hardy

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Edward Abbey

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Simone de Beauvoir

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
John Wayne

Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
James Allen

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne