Opinion Differs Quotes & Sayings

The genius differs from us men in being able to endure isolation, his rank as a genius is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we men are constantly in need of "the others," the herd; we die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the herd, of the same opinion as the herd. — Soren Kierkegaard

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by. — Herman Hupfeld

When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script. — Peter Jackson

You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly. — William Goldman

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road. — Samuel Johnson

As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start. — Adam Brown

All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder. — Aldous Huxley

For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the "riddles of the universe," or the intimate knowledge of the hidden universal laws which are supposed to rule nature and man. — Hannah Arendt

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. — Horace Mann

It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion. — Thomas Jefferson

The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust. — Tony Blair

I recognised uneasily the hand of what I sometimes thought to be my personal nemesis, the spirit of farce. — William Golding

I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances. — Kim Alexis

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary. — Charles Caleb Colton

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice ... — Maria Edgeworth