Opinion Quotes

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.

If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.

Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles.

I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.

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.