Betty Boothroyd famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

  • I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

  • To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

  • No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.

  • Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

  • Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

  • As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

  • If we lose our wilderness , we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.

  • I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

  • Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

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