Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.
~By James Mackintosh ~
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
~By Edward W. Howe ~
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.
~By Robert G. Allen ~
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
~By Wilfrid Sheed ~
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
~By John Morley ~
The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
~By William Hazlitt ~
No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.
~By Stafford Cripps ~
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
~By Harrison Ford ~
Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.
~By Tim McGraw ~
New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
~By Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards ~
In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
~By J. G. Holland ~
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
~By Bashar al-Assad ~
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
~By Gelett Burgess ~
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
~By Ellen Glasgow ~
I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
~By George W. Bush ~
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
~By Gary Coleman ~
If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.
~By James Q. Wilson ~
My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
~By Gore Vidal ~
I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.
~By Philip Gibbs ~
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.
~By Payne Stewart ~
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
~By Coco Chanel ~
Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!
~By Frances Burney ~
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.
~By Shia LaBeouf ~
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.
~By Simon Conway Morris ~
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
~By James F. Cooper ~
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.
~By Jacques Lacan ~
This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
~By Origen ~
I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.
~By Pat Toomey ~
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
~By Epictetus ~
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
~By Jane Austen ~
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
~By Andre Maurois ~
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.'
~By Tommy Cooper ~
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
~By Dan Rather ~
The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.
~By Peter King ~
I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.
~By Charlotte Rampling ~
Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days.
~By William Tyndale ~
As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.
~By Stockwell Day ~
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
~By Edmund Burke ~
I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
~By Yitzhak Shamir ~
In my opinion I do not think I am a better guitarist than Ace, I honestly think we're both different, and we both brought something unique to the musical.
~By Vinnie Vincent ~
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
~By Bruce Grocott ~
There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.
~By Paul Dirac ~
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
~By Omar Sharif ~
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
~By Horatio Nelson ~
I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.
~By Alexander Mackenzie ~
I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
~By Pete Seeger ~
His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.
~By Maurice Ashley ~
People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that.
~By Deborah Cox ~
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
~By William Lloyd Garrison ~
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.
~By Joe Eszterhas ~
I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.
~By Douglas Wilson ~
Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
~By Les Brown ~
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter.
~By Townsend Harris ~
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
~By David Eddings ~
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
~By Josh Billings ~
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
~By Sallust ~
None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
~By Mary Astell ~
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
~By Francis Bacon ~
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
~By Albrecht Druer ~
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.
~By Louis Stokes ~
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
~By Carrie Chapman Catt ~
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
~By Mark Twain ~
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
~By Dean Inge ~
Actors always have opinions.
~By Joe Pantoliano ~
If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.
~By Shirley Manson ~
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
~By Charles Babbage ~
The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
~By Charles McCabe ~
In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it.
~By Dana Plato ~
We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.
~By King Hussein I ~
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