Famous Quotes & Sayings

Damon Lindelof

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Thomas B. Macaulay

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

Victoria Woodhull

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

Victoria Woodhull

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

Victor Hugo

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

Susie Orbach

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

Susanna Clarke

you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.

Stephen Daldry

It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.

Alan Lightman

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Jane Addams

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Jane Austen

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Clay Shirky

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

D. H. Lawrence

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

David Steel

I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.

David Lloyd George

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

Ambrose Bierce

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

Andrew Jackson

Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

Cam Newton

Everybody's entitled to their own opinion.

Bobby Knight

If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Rene Descartes

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

Robert Menzies

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

Robert Greene

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

T. Boone Pickens

I've got an opinion on everything.

Scott Westerfeld

You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir,” Newkirk said. “Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.

Thomas Jefferson

The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.