Opinion Essay Quotes

#1. He hasn't said whether he remembers the episode itself - or, if he doesn't, whether that is because it never happened or because it happened too often to keep track. More important, he hasn't said what he thinks about it all from the perspective of 2003.

Michael Kinsley

#2. An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

Cynthia Ozick

#3. the concept of monotheism

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#4. What if I don't like adventure?
Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That's how you grow.

Wally Lamb

#5. How often are you aware of your surroundings, really aware? And how often are you merely reacting in the same automatic way as you do in dreams?

Stephen LaBerge

#6. An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.

Danny Hillis

#7. And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.

Ronald Reagan

#8. I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

Ezra Pound

#9. There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

Raymond Carver

#10. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. It's been six weeks. If Blane hasn't sealed the deal by now, its open season.

Tiffany Snow

#12. Then he looked at a car. It was odd how soon one got used to cars without horses, he thought. They used to look ridiculous.

Virginia Woolf

#13. The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.

Adolf Hitler

#14. We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again.

Eleanor Brown