opinion

Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people__ opinions and/or expectations.

Kehidupan lebih nyata daripada pendapat siapapun tentang kenyataan.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

I write in seconds. I don__ stop. I don__ think. I simply write and when it comes, it flows and it makes sense because it__ genuine. I don__ understand thought-out poetry. It doesn__ seem real to me.

In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any other writer, is "good". Nor is there any way of definitely proving that--for instance--Warwick Beeping is "bad". Ultimately there is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.

I do not go to church. I don__ go to Christian church or Jew church or any other church. I don__ go to church at all. Not ever. A perfect Sunday for me is spent drinking green tea while reading the Sunday New York Times. Yikes! Why don__ I just turn in my Al-Qaeda membership form and call it a day? As if that wasn__ bad enough, not only do I not go to church:I don__ believe in God. How can I say the Pledge of Allegiance if I don__ believe in God? How can I spend our American currency which pledges __n God We Trust?_ How can I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, so help me God? Answer: I can__. It__ a real problem. Don__ get me wrong _ I__ like to believe in God. I wish I did, especially if He was the kind of God that thought America was #1. But I don__, which to many people is the same as not believing in America. Up until recently, I thought those people were lunatics.

No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation whatever is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

Still, one can be honest yet quite mistaken.

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.

...it's exemplification of our moment in American culture and American cultural journalism. It is an accurate document of the discourse of "takes." This movie, that book, this poem, that painting, this record, that show: Make a smart remark and move on. A take is an opinion that has no aspiration to a belief, an impression taht never hardens into a position. Its lightness is its appeal. It is provisional, evanescent, a move in a game, an accredited shallowness, a bulwark against a pause in the conversation. A take is expected not to be true but to be interesting, and even when it is interesting it makes no troublesome claim upon anybody's attention. Another take will quickly follow, and the silence that is a mark of perplexity, of research and reflection, will be mercifully kept at bay. A take asks for no affiliation. It requires no commitment.

Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we__e given them permission to be impossible.

Five of the most dangerous words I know: __hat__ in it for me?