Opinion Quotes - page 83

In these days of strong party feeling and of keenly-contested social and religious issues, it might perhaps be thought difficult to find a single question having a vital bearing upon national life and well-being on which all persons, no matter of what political party, or of what shade of sociological opinion, would be found to be fully and entirely agreed. (Ebenezer Howard)
The simple truth is that everyone has an opinion, everyone has the right to voice it, and they should if they want to. View quote
George Clooney
The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch. View quote
Emma Lazarus
[how anyone could] remain an individual if he had to conform with senseless orders and old foolish things without being asked his opinion on them. View quote
Maurice de Vlaminck
Public opinion can become polarized into a bimodal distribution with only a few people in the centre and many more lying toward the extremes. But under such circumstances, democracy will probably break down into civil war, and spatial models of party competition will be irrelevant until order is restored. View quote
Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)
In my opinion, people in our society are becoming like clones. Children are not reading books, and they are not learning by doing. They're just sitting and watching each other be pretty. Like my vases. View quote
Guity Novin
I have heard it stated - and I confess with some surprise - as an article of Conservative opinion that paternal Government - that is to say, the use of the machinery of Government for the benefit of the people - is a thing in itself detestable and wicked. I am unable to subscribe to that doctrine, either politically or historically. View quote
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation. View quote
Bob Costas
A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In America, public opinion is the leader. View quote
Frances Perkins
Have a definite opinion. (William Safire)
A keyhole speech is very simple, especially mine. First it states the issues. An issue is just a difference of opinion, which is why we put erasers on horse races. And as I always say, as long as we have issues, we can't have everything. View quote
Gracie Allen
Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't give too much information, if I don't go there, it's like I was never there in the first place. I noticed this most right after September 11, when there were no gays or lesbians invited to give their opinion about what was going on. There were no women invited to give their opinion. There were hardly any people of color invited, and if they were, they were Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans talking about the violence that they'd experienced because they shared the same skin color as the terrorists, which is heinous and dumb! View quote
Margaret Cho
I got better and Daisy didn't and I can't explain why. Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and classmates. I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true. I still think about it. I'll always have to think about it. View quote
Susanna Kaysen
I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for. View quote
Rachael Ray
We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean. View quote
Frances Burney
It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion. View quote
Hermann Hesse
The experiment of arming the blacks, so far as I have made it, has been a complete and marvellous success. They are sober, docile, attentive, and enthusiastic - displaying great natural capacities in acquiring the duties of the soldier. They are now eager beyond all things to take the field and be led into action; and it is the unanimous opinion of the officers who have had charge of them, that, in the peculiarities of this climate and country, they will prove invaluable auxiliaries - fully equal. View quote
David Hunter
Conservatism is not a body of opinion, it has no set platform or creed, and hence, strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a hundred-per-cent conservative group or party. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
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. View quote
Debbie Reynolds
During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably. (Mandy Patinkin)
In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better. View quote
Taylor Swift
If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. View quote
David Mamet
It is not in my nature, some of my critics would rather say, not in my power, to dispute on behalf of any opinion, even my own, very obstinately. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Everyone has the right to their own opinion about a ritual, and to their own aesthetics. There's generally at least one invocation in every ritual that I could personally do without. View quote
Starhawk