Quotes & Sayings About Opinions Not Mattering

I am a black male who grew up in the inner city of Atlanta and no one ever followed me in a mall. I don't recall any doors clicking when I crossed the street. And I never had anyone clutching their handbag when I got on an elevator. I guess having two awesome parents who taught me to be a respectful young man paid dividends. — Allen West

But yes. Come, faulty dragon people. Follow us. — Rick Riordan

Babe-Ruth raised her family with everything but money — Orzie Henderson Jr.

The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell. — Stuart Rothenberg

But now he knows for certain how true the axiom is, because he himself - his very life - has proven it. The person I was will always be the person I am, he realizes. — Hanya Yanagihara

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. — Henry David Thoreau

We're all shaped to some degree by our own biographies and cultures and it's easy to believe that what's happened before determines what has to come next. The American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson thought otherwise. "What lies behind us," he wrote, "and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Finding your Element is about discovering what lies within you and, in doing so, transforming what lies before you. "Risk — Ken Robinson

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude. — Andy Stanley

Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker. — Barrett Foa

The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever. — Heath Ledger

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing. — Chris Benz

A person that knows the acceptable times always controls situations. — Sunday Adelaja

Look back on your life and find something small that made a big difference. — Anne Lamott

Love is like a unique comet that appears rarely in the sky shines as bright as a thousand stars and flies through your galaxy creating light during an eclipse. — Leesa Abbott