No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
~By Robert Peel ~
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 ~
Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
~By Adolf Galland ~
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.
~By Robert Mueller ~
Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
~By Charles McCabe ~
When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch.
~By Bette Davis ~
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
~By Albert Einstein ~
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
~By William Gilbert ~
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.
~By Phyllis McGinley ~
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 ~
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 ~
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
~By Mary Astell ~
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
~By Edmond de Goncourt ~
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
~By William Cobbett ~
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
~By Epictetus ~
I'm a big believer in therapy. I'm in therapy in real life. I think anytime you can bitch and moan about your own life to someone who really doesn't care that much, and can give you an objective opinion about what you're going through, I think that's valuable.
~By Eric Stoltz ~
American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
~By Caleb Cushing ~
Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
~By Albert Speer ~
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
~By James Madison ~
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
~By Francis Wright ~
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
~By Tanith Lee ~
Business leaders shape public opinion.
~By Marvin Bower ~
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 ~
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
~By Zhuangzi ~
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.
~By Ann Rule ~
I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
~By Dana Plato ~
You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
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 ~
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
~By Robert Jackson ~
I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.
~By Lesley Stahl ~
Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.
~By James Payn ~
Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.
~By Sarah Palin ~
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
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 ~
You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.
~By Steve Forbes ~
Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.
~By Toby Keith ~
I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
~By Joan Baez ~
I became more confident within myself and matured as a person and become a little bit more opinionated - maybe the lads might say a little bit too opinionated for their liking but that is just a natural progression for a player.
~By Kenny Cunningham ~
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 ~
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
~By Robert Peel ~
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.
~By Billy Tauzin ~
It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
~By Eleanor Clift ~
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.
~By Julius Rosenberg ~
It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.
~By Daniel Okrent ~
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
~By Walter Cronkite ~
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
~By Josh Billings ~
I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.
~By Debbie Reynolds ~
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.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.
~By Mike Rounds ~
I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
~By Conrad Black ~
Knowledge is true opinion.
~By Plato ~
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
~By Anna Freud ~
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
~By John Morley ~
People's opinions don't interfere with me.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
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 will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.
~By Amy Irving ~
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 man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
~By John Dawkins ~
I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.
~By Robert MacNeil ~
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
~By John Mason Brown ~
Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.
~By Dianne Wiest ~
In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful.
~By Leo Bogart ~
We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.
~By Penn Jillette ~
I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
~By Joseph Lewis ~
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
~By B. Carroll Reece ~
Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
~By Malcolm Boyd ~
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
~By Alfred Austin ~
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
~By Jane Austen ~
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
~By William Cobbett ~
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
~By Alyssa Milano ~
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
~By Samuel Butler ~
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
~By Edward Bernays ~
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
~By Finley Peter Dunne ~
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
~By Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
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.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they want.
~By Julius Rosenberg ~
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.
~By Anthony Holden ~
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.
~By John Mica ~
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