Nicolas Gomez Davila Quotes

Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion

Nicolas Gomez Davila

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• I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • High
  • Think

• A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Woman

• All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • Friendship
  • Anger

• I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Ideas
  • Opinion
  • New York

• When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Society
  • Lost
  • Opinion

• I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Believe
  • Opinion
  • Humble

• During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Opinion

• In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Way
  • Opinion
  • Singing

• It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Education
  • Opinion
  • English

• Such, in my opinion, is the true Gospel concerning Wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the Rich and the Poor, and to bring 'Peace on earth, among men Good Will.'

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • Good
  • Men
  • True

• It's one of the best leagues in Europe in football. Benfica in my opinion is one of the top 10 biggest clubs in the world.

  

  Freddy Adu
  • World
  • Football
  • Opinion

• If whatever we do changes one person's opinion, gets one person's readiness better than it was before, or at the end of the day entertains people, than we've done our job.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Respect
  • Opinion
  • Popular

• The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Perfect
  • Opinion

• The Facebook way is that you sit at the table and you state your opinion, back it up with data, and make a recommendation.

  

  Marne Levine
  • Up
  • Opinion

• Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the fact of not making a film to give your opinion but just as a piece of art, which to me means the Nouvelle Vague.

  

  Arnaud Desplechin
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Freedom

• Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.

  

  Jim Coleman
  • Opinion

• Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Pain
  • Blood
  • Creatures

• First, then, the Lord began His final work by casting Adam into a deep sleep. And so did the second Adam lie three days in the sleep of death before the creation of His bride could be commenced. While the first Adam slept, God opened his side and took out the rib wherewith He made the woman. So while the second Adam slept in death upon the cross, a soldier pierced His side, so that there came forth blood and water; and by means of that blood, without the shedding of which there could never have been remission of sins, the Church is now in process of formation. Thou “didst purchase unto God by Thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,”[158] is the cry of the elders when the time has at length come to sing the new song.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Work
  • Lord
  • Final

• If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • World
  • Country
  • Mistake

• Hawkesworth said of Johnson, 'You have a memory that would convict any author of plagiarism in any court of literature in the world.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Literature
  • Author

• Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion

  

  Nicolas Gomez Davila
  • Opinion
  • Public
  • Private