Opinion Quotes

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.

Our opinions are what we'll be known for; our love is what we'll be remembered for

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

Opinions are like phasers - everybody ought to have one.

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in the history of international oil industry and bid the mighty peak farewell.

An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster

Opinion is the queen of the world.

To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

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

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]

My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.

And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

I've assimilated the hit. I've passed along most of what I can and now I'm prepared to live with it. But in my opinion, prices will come down.

My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

I'm 43 years old, and I know who I am, and I own my mistakes. They're my business. And when somebody who doesn't know me has an opinion, it's none of my business.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Criticism is just someone's opinion you don't agree with!