A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.
Marcel Proust
Related You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is diff... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Everybody in life is a chameleon. MELANIE CHISHOLM There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean m... DANE DEHAAN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself. JOSEPH HALL War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a vi... EDGAR RAMIREZ He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave. KLOPSTOCK He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave. KLOPSTOCK There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really pecu... ZADIE SMITH Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day. BARRY WHITE I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Everybody has the right to have their own opinion, DANIEL ALFREDSSON Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable,... SARGENT SHRIVER Everybody has an opinion, ... And I respected his. FRANK CONLEY Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what e... SOURCE UNKNOWN I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I sa... BRENDAN FRASER Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves. VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is. KATEE SACKHOFF There's a certain kind of research you have to listen to - the factual stuff, not opinion. Facts... PAUL RAND I'm of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what's 'tr... BOY GEORGE When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like... PETER SAUL This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal. DADA BHAGWAN The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a... HENRY JAMES One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In... NICK HANAUER About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often mis... DAVID TANG The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybo... LENNY KRAVITZ The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opin... BRIAN COX Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another. JOHN SELDEN Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion. PETER COYOTE I can't control the criticism. It's something you certainly don't appreciate, but by the... DON SHULA Common is one of the nicest people I've ever met, and to describe him as a vile rapper because h... JILL SCOTT For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA As far as social media and all that, I understand connecting with fans on a different level, but I d... DEAN AMBROSE Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in m... LA'PORSHA RENAE Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. BLAISE PASCAL Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one w... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinion of others. SIR HENRY TAYLOR Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself,... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. ARNOLD BENNETT Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be grateful for every moment and every breath. TERESA COLLINS It seems to be an issue that almost everybody has an opinion on, and I guess that's a good thing. BRUCE WOODS Every single firefighter is outraged by the comments made by the imam. Everybody is entitled to thei... STEPHEN CASSIDY The district court's opinion ... is subject to two interpretations, neither of which has a sound leg... SAMUEL ALITO Without music, life is a journey through a desert. PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. POPE FRANCIS Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks of himself, th... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, t... HENRY DAVID THOREAU You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES All orthodox opinion -- that is, today, revolutionary opinion either of the pure or the impure varie... PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Congress has taken her opinion -- and they know it's simply opinion -- and dressed it up as fact, an... BRUCE HILER Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself,... HENRY DAVID THOREAU A belief is an opinion, a religion is a belief, and an opinion is a right. YAHYA MOHAMUD Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day. BARRY WHITE It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of... W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains ... WILLIAM RALPH INGE It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of ... W. R. INGE It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of... WILLIAM RALPH INGE Few people tell you how to make the money. But everybody has an opinion on how to spend it. OLASOT One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the r... OSCAR WILDE Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of cou... PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this co... CHARLES EVANS HUGHES It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a diffe... WILLIAM RALPH INGE Unless a legislature passes a bill testing the opinion, there is no way to know if the court's opini... VIKRAM AMAR A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. CARL SANDBURG Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement tha... THEODORE DALRYMPLE I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ... MARCUS AURELIUS This case may also be notable for the chutzpah of the Assistant United States Attorney in advancing ... LEGAL OPINION There were no computers retrieved, but there were indications of equipment taken out, there were com... FEDERICO OPINION We have no law on hacking. We are consulting some technical experts to see how it would fit into wir... FEDERICO OPINION As some said, they might have been just playing around, but we will know that because they will be s... FEDERICO OPINION The crater could only be done by a powerful explosive. FEDERICO OPINION The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. ANDRE MAUROIS My personal opinion about the world is that it's homogenized. MICKEY DREXLER It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in f... WILLIAM RALPH INGE It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in f... W. R. INGE It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in f... DEAN INGE Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. THOMAS CARLYLE I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film. JASPER FFORDE A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA In my opinion a mathematician need not preoccupy himself with philosophy -- An opinion, moreover, wh... SOURCE UNKNOWN Life is a predicament which precedes death. HENRY JAMES If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights ... HASSAN NASRALLAH Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one. UNKNOWN This level of competition is extremely high. Everybody is trained. Everybody has a game plan. Everyb... ALISTAIR OVEREEM
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