Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Madonna Ciccone

Everyone is entitled to my opinion

Stephen Murphy

My opinion is if you are going to teach evolution, then you have to teach creationism. Being a Christian, you ought to teach creationism. My opinion is that is fact.

William Evans

My own opinion is Pepsi sells better than Coke.

Cindy Stein

My personal opinion is they're better than 11th in the country. Obviously, they're very well-coached and they just have talent throughout.

Bertrand Russell

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

Rick Gibson

That was the game, those two (baskets) in my opinion were the game.

Vint Cerf

Why would they be soliciting the opinion of a pun writer about this?

Jon Rubin

We'll try to get as many points of view into each story so the viewer can take away their own opinion as to what transpired.

Bob Lutz

Right now, we're not where we ought to be (on hybrids).

John Gibson

We've got about 300 members. We ought to have about 3,000.

John Stossel

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

Susan Vreeland

I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization.

Robert Morrison

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Dave Gomo

If you've never done it, they ought to try it.

R. Ingram

It's something they ought to be able to live with.

Paul Simon

As you look at the vote returns, I think the Senate this time ought to be able to pass a Constitutional amendment.

Christopher Dodd

This ought not to be a controversial proposal,

Ben Mendelsohn

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

Barbara Jordan

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

Barbara Park

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Brenda Ueland

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Calvin Coolidge

The Jews themselves, of whom a considerable number were already scattered throughout the colonies, were true to the teachings of their prophets. The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty.

Bryant H. McGill

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.