Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.
Quotes to Explore
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.
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I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!
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I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.
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In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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I learned early on – I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion.
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Don't get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don't get on his bad side.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and then Joan Didion just eviscerated her in the most - possibly not inaccurate - but in the most devastating way.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.
