#opinion

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#am #american #cause #changed #downward

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#does #europe #fascism #first #first time

A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team. ↗

— Mitch Gaylord

#championship #deserved #everyone #guys #happen

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#dry #fire #haven #i #much

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there. ↗

— Alan Vega

#around #bands #enough #fulfill #get

I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#continued #did #ever #family #honest

In my opinion, it's more interesting to see magic happening in a world that feels grounded. If the world is already crazy, then anything can happen. So it's better to start with something real. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#anything #better #crazy #feels #grounded

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#ahead #convincing #following #ground #leadership

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point. ↗

— Al Gore

#change #closer #critical #critical mass #day

We read to lend words to our expe­ri­ence. As we read, we trans­late, as it were, the author’s words into our own expe­ri­ence, enlarg­ing the mean­ing of those words, gen­er­a­tion after gen­er­a­tion. Not find­ing just any mean­ing, of course, if we read hon­estly, but mean­ings that many times escaped even the author, who is often the least shrewd of the read­ers of that text. We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into words our most inti­mate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a col­lab­o­ra­tive act. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#experience