Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing that will keep a person from Christ like a good opinion of himself.

Al Pacino

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

Catherine the Great

I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

Catherine the Great

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

Carl Hiaasen

I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish.

David Hume

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.

Diana Gabaldon

I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.

Cesare Pavese

Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.

Edmund White

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.

Helen Oyeyemi

I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.

Thucydides

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Agatha Christie

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Edward Young

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise

Charles Spurgeon

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

David Cross

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

Hilary Clinton

The Post's icon status was earned through hard work and nerve under fire, not through fear of criticism,

Glen Davis

We are a team that likes to use selective hearing. Day after day we have to go out there and compete. What the critics say: thanks for the pub. But it is for the birds.

Beverly Sills

Don't get me started on critics.

Richard Boucher

We reject any criticism, any allegations that our human rights efforts have diminished.

Mike Umaga

With what Doncaster offer and the way they attack, we feel Jon is a stronger defensive option than Dave. It's all about timing as well - Jon wants to go out and prove a few critics wrong, but he knows he still has a few things to work on.

Rohit Shetty

There are many critics who invite me on their show, and I have told them that when my film releases, you will give it one-and-a-half star rating. That's fine. There's no issue because stars will matter when I'm planning to open a five star hotel. When I'm making films, I don't need stars.

Johnny Knoxville

We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.

Twyla Tharp

Critics should be looked at simply as commentators.