Individual Perspectives Quotes

Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.

It's nice to dig deeper into people who may look one way but always have a story to tell. I obviously write about that a lot.

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Everybody thinks they are right

How many people have different opinions in this world? Every different person has a different opinion of what that bottle really is or what colour it is. If I say that bottle is clear, there will be someone out there telling me that bottle is green or blue.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone

A woman’s point of view is something which cannot be defined. Women, like men, have different views. No political stance could receive the approval of all women.

my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true.

Opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one.

... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

I would say that, between us, I tend to be a little bit more philosophically optimistic. Jonah, I think he sees things as more finite.

My view is my view. Your view is your view.

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.

People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.

The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.

Isn't everyone just travelling down their own road watching the signs as they go?

Everyone has his reasons.