#opinions

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read. ↗

— Rick Barry

#any #based #because #form #hearsay

Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#best #best interests #call #children #considered

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#applies #does #existence #go #hidden

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#judgments #matter #only #opinions #private

Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#opinions

Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#opinions

My good opinion once lost is lost forever. ↗

— Jane Austen

#opinions

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#doubting #made #morons #most #natural

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#agree #beings #choices #creatures #design

I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#anyone #anything #book #corrections #could