“To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.” MayMovingFormGamesOpinionTakenPiecesChessVenture Book:Maxims and Reflections Source: Maxims and Reflections
“The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even to a river, brook, &c. And I have known them make bargain and sale amongst themselves for a small piece or quantity of ground; notwithstanding a sinful opinion amongst many, that christians have right to heathen's lands.” PeopleChristianKnownOpinionPiecesLandRiversBoundsBelongingQuantityBargainsBrooksHeathenPunctualSmall Pieces Author:Roger Williams
“I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.” YearsHardOpinionNovelPiecesPaperNewsYears AgoSpendingBuyingSundayPapersBetter OffHandful Author:Gerry Adams
“If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.” IfsMenChurchOpinionPiecesWindowObservationAltars Book:Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature Source: Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature
“The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"” PeopleThinkingWritingKindBookYoungGuyCultureOpinionPiecesQuittingWhy NotReviewsAspireThis GuyPremises Author:Chuck Klosterman
“My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.” KindStatesThreeNationsPoorUnitedOpinionUnited StatesPiecesMonthsStandardsShameNotionCampaignsAbandonAncestorRepresentativesSpainPettyScornThree MonthsGreat NationsOutragedDecrepit Book:War and Other Essays Source: War and Other Essays