O Quotes
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“Ophelia was beating some poor underling for not knowing her arse from the sparse collection of cells between her ears.”
Source: The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires
“Ophelia was bonkers, right? And Juliet was what, a sixth-grader?”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection
“Ophelia was surprised by how easily she lied. She had two stolen keys in her pocket, and the lies were sliding off her tongue. Soon, she'd probably be shoplifting. She expected that was how it started.”
Source: Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
“Opia. So much can be said in a glance. Such ambiguous intensity, both invasive and vulnerable—glittering black, bottomless and opaque. The eye is a keyhole, through which the world pours in and a world spills out. And for a few seconds, you can peek through into a vault, that contains everything they are. But whether the eyes are the windows of the soul or the doors of perception, it doesn't matter: you're still standing on the outside of the house. Eye contact isn't really contact at all. It's only ever a glance, a near miss, that you can only feel as it slips past you.
There’s so much we keep in the back room. We offer up a sample of who we are, of what we think people want us to be. But so rarely do we stop to look inside, and let our eyes adjust, and see what's really there. Because you too are peering out from behind your own door. You put yourself out there, trying to decide how much of the world to let in. It's all too easy for others to size you up, and carry on their way. They can see you more clearly than you ever could. And yours is the only vault you can't see into, that you can't size up in an instant.
So we're all just exchanging glances, trying to tell each other who we are, trying to catch a glimpse of ourselves, feeling around in the darkness.”
“Opiate use in medicine had been destigmatized by crusading doctors. But destigmatizing the new opiate addiction had no prestigious crusaders. That task fell to parents of dead kids and a few individuals with a flair for guerrilla political action...”
Source: Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
“OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Opijen beskrajem u sebe ga primaš
Kidaš spetljane konce
Nit izvora niti utonuća
Svetlošću sjedinjeni”
Source: Krugovanje
“Opinamos que el hombre fuerte puede permitirse el lujo de ser amable, mientras que el dócil e inseguro de sí mismo tiene que fanfarronear para darse un poco de seguridad.”
Source: The Third Eye
“Opinan como si pensaran; ignoran como si supieran.”
“Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations
“Opinion free brands simply will struggle to survive in the future - of that simple reason that we increasingly want to associate ourselves with opinionated and authentic brands.”
“Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.”
Source: Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo
“Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.”
“Opinion has ever been stronger than law.”
Source: Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada
“Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his technique is comprehensive, and he is, of course, musical to his bone's marrow. Most important of all, he is a composer, and for this reason he is able to approach a work as none of his pianist contemporaries can approach one - that is, from the inside, as an organic and felt creative process.”
“Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.”
“Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.”
Source: On the Soul
“Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.”
“Opinion is a flitting thing
But Truth outlasts the Sun.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.”
Source: Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version
“Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.”
Source: The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English ...
“Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary
“Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.”
Source: Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga
“Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.”
Source: Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer
“Opinion is never a fact. And fact is never a truth.”
“Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.”
“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”
“Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.”
Source: Table-talk: the discourses of J. Selden [ed. by R. Milward.].
“Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.”
Source: The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference
“Opinion is the death of knowledge.”
“Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
“Opinion is the queen of the world.”
Source: Thoughts on religion
“Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.”
“Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.”
Source: Reflections
“Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.”
Source: The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal
“Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion”
“Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.”
“Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.”
“Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.”
Source: Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney
“Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
The outward habit by the inward man.”
Source: Titus Andronicus. Pericles. Glossarial index
“Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Opinion, and the just maintenance of it, shall never be a crime in my view.”
Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
“Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs”
Source: Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder
“Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.”
Source: Save the World on Your Own Time
“Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.”
“Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.”
“Opinions about sexuality, is the main evidence of the presence of wrong knowledge about sexuality.”
Source: Brahmacharya: Celibacy
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.”
“Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.”
Source: Selected Writings: 1927-1934