Opinion Quotes

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

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.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

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.

As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.

With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

You don't have to be captain to have an opinion.

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.

I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

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.

I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.