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Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.


Wilfrid Laurier

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WILFRID LAURIER For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a ...
WILFRID LAURIER Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to or...
WILFRID LAURIER It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.
WILFRID LAURIER I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith...
WILFRID LAURIER I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England ...
WILFRID LAURIER I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere o...
WILFRID LAURIER I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our ti...
WILFRID LAURIER If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.
WILFRID LAURIER Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.
WILFRID LAURIER Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinc...
WILFRID LAURIER Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to ...
WILFRID LAURIER It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have...
WILFRID LAURIER The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
WILFRID LAURIER Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ...
WILFRID LAURIER Two races share today the soil of Canada … These people had not always been friends. But I hasten ...
WILFRID LAURIER He who does not consider others' opinions does not deserve to have his considered in return.
TROY PEW The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
EDMUND BURKE If you are eager to find the reason I became the Kvothe they tell stories about, you could look ther...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS When I look about me, I see everywhere hope, calm resolution, courage, enthusiasm to face all diffic...
SIR WILFRID LAURIER Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.
GILLES DUCEPPE Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.
ALEXANDER POPE You opinions about me does not change who I am.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual,...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE We find that at present the human race is divided into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools o...
T.H. WHITE In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Having difficulties in life is nothing but only a matter of choice.
VIKRANT PARSAI Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.
CHARLES ANDERSON DANA Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
CHARLES A DANA Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
CHARLES A. DANA Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.
CHARLES A. DANA My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear.
PAULINE MAROIS My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not ch...
DAVID NOVAK Noble ideas, great sentiments have always existed and have always been transmitted, but wars have ne...
MARIA MONTESSORI People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the ti...
C. JOYBELL C. A doctor does not ask about political views and opinions - that is how I understand my role.
EWA KOPACZ The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of ...
JOHN ADAMS Mark brings a great deal of energy and enthusiasm to practices as well as games. Not only does he ha...
CARL HUNCKLER I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them
GEORGE BUSH I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him.
G. C LICHTENBERG I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.
GEORGE BUSH Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH We can't only be tied to Quebec's demands, but at the same time we take seriously the recommendation...
IRWIN COTLER This scandal has the potential to have a huge effect on K Street for decades. It will not only furth...
ALEX KNOTT Just an emotional response of sentiments will only lead to tiredness and weariness.
SUNDAY ADELAJA They have their opinions, but we have the answers.
ANTHONY LICCIONE Try not to seek after the true
Only cease to cherish opinions. (172)
EDWARD CONZE Many opinions try to influence, but only a handful ever really change the world.
RIAAN VAN WYK We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only you can define you. No one else's opinions should have any impact whatsoever.
ELIZA LEAMY Not only does he bring that new blood, new way of looking at it, (but) not once have (district offic...
JOHN CAMPBELL We do our best to make sure that doesn't happen, but occasionally it does. But notebooks are not by ...
BILL KELLER The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
PASQUIER QUESNEL When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.
UNKNOWN I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to ...
RT. HON. SIR WILLIAM EDWARD GOSCHEN I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they marr...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF Them's my sentiments
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY ... sentimentele slăbesc cînd le schimbi locul.../ Frédéric s’était attendu à des spa...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men n...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is n...
JOSHUA FERRIS Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.
MALCOLM GLADWELL We believe the people of Canada and the people of Quebec have the right to know.
GILLES RHEAUME Magazines and opinions of you and stuff like that, those will change, but your opinion of yourself d...
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions
BOOTH TARKINGTON Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
BOOTH TARKINGTON Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, sin...
BOYD RICE Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of m...
JOHN SCALZI Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.
MAHATMA GANDHI I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
ULYSSES S. GRANT We have a lot of respect for Fields, he's a great athlete. He does so many different things. But he'...
CHUCK WAGNER It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent...
NORMAN ANGELL It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent...
NORMAN ANGELL As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human ...
STOCKWELL DAY Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.
JACQUES VILLENEUVE I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't...
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
CHARLES MCCABE Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art
CHARLES MCCABE Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
BUDDHA Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
CHARLES SPURGEON Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.
YITZHAK NAVON If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find ou...
THOMAS à KEMPIS Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never ...
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