O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one.”
“Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks.”
Source: How to Ruin a Summer Vacation
“Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.”
“Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.”
“Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.”
Source: Shaq Talks Back
“Opinions are like demo tapes. I don't want to hear yours”
“Opinions are like drums; if you do not beat them, they wouldn’t sound. Let the world know your opinion on issues.”
“Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink.”
“Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.”
“Opinions are like nipples, everybody has one. Some have firm points, others are barely discernible through layers, and some are displayed at every opportunity regardless of whether the audience has stated "I am interested in your nipples" or not.”
“Opinions are like onions. They spell similarly, usually have many layers, and tend to make people cry.”
“Opinions are like orgasms...mine matters most and I really don't care if you have one.”
“Opinions are like phasers - everybody ought to have one.”
“Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?”
“Opinions are never facts.”
“Opinions are never facts.
Facts are never truth.
Truth is Truth.”
“Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.”
Source: Course of Popular Lectures,
“Opinions are projections.”
“Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.”
“Opinions are swayed and decisions made as commonly in the pub after work as in the office boardroom, and 'soft power' is as crucial as formal hierarchical structures. A quiet word behind the scenes, an appropriately timed gift, a well-negotiated marriage alliance - the general management of the human networks so necessary in early modern society were all forms of political agency wielded expertly by women.”
Source: The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
“Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.”
Source: Think & Grow Rich
“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.”
Source: One-Way Street
“Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.”
“Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.”
Source: The speeches of the right honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons
“Opinions can never cease to exist and empower judgments. Thinking of other's doesn't stop or change you either.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“Opinions can't be inaccurate.”
“Opinions differ on the question of whether a golden age is something you can experience while it's happening or whether it only comes into focus on reflection...no matter how grand and prosperous and momentous the time in which you are living may be, its grandeur is inevitably stained by the incessant drabness of the present.”
Source: Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
“Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational”
“Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.”
“Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.”
“Opinions have vested interests just as men have.”
Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks
“Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.”
“Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.”
“Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“Opinions need a willing ear.”
“Opinions of others may temporary influence your decisions.
But you ought to follow your own inner voice.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.”
“Opinions scattered indiscriminately about leave the mark of egotism.”
Source: the elements of style
“Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.”
“Opinions that pay get my attention.”
“Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.”
Source: Unpopular Essays
“Opinions will differ, but let not your humanity be lost because of your differences.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“Opinions, from experts, cost money.”
“Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.”
“Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be a flowing river of verse and all I have to do is learn how to swim.”
Source: The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
“Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.”
“Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat.
Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.”
“Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.”