Opinion Quotes

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.

After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place.

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.

In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.

I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.