#opinio

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty! ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#almighty #always #any #continue #emergency

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#back #compromise #confronted #constituencies #distinct

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#any #anybody #believe #claims #does

Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion. ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#bad #being #employee #good #just

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#civil servants #diplomats #drawn #foreign #get

My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#antagonism #bring #cooperation #each #fact

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#discrimination #dull #good #great #great literature

It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#country #declare #different #duty #equally

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#american public #cannot #like #ocean #opinion

I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their political opinions - I just wanted to know what they'd had for breakfast. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#always #breakfast #found #had #i