Changing Opinions Quotes

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

I wouldn't necessarily be star-struck. I haven't been yet. But I don't know what happens in the future - maybe one day I will be. You never know.

Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

People who don't know me are so negative about me. When they finally meet me, they change that negative into a positive.

I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can't keep track of 'em, because I talk to too many people... I'm not so opinionated that I won't budge.

If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.

The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.

Maurice' was a groundbreaking film. People didn't feel that then but looking back everyone says that.

I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.

Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle!

I want to show people that I'm not what everybody thought I was.

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.

The senator who is driving you crazy today may be with you tomorrow.

When I listen to my work, I think, what's so inflammatory about it? It's not really that dissonant. A lot of people who used to hate my stuff have come round to it.

Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.

Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.