Opinion Quotes

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.

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

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.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.

But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that.

I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.