Opinion Quotes

• The people at my label are always endorsing what I say. They say, 'You see the truth, so speak it.' They believe in me. They respect my opinion. At least I have an opinion, and I'm not trying to play it safe. I don't go around saying, 'I think everyone is great, and the world is fantastic.' Everyone has opinions. They just don't say it.

  

  Estelle
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Respect

• It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Different
  • Easy
  • Photograph

• If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Individual
  • Honest
  • Groups

• You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Different
  • Opinion
  • Differences

• Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything consciously.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• As soon as a women gets to an age where she has opinions and she's vital and she's strong, she's systematically shamed into hiding under a rock.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Age
  • Strong
  • Feminist

• What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.

  

  Michael Caine
  • People
  • Realizing
  • Protection

• In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Science
  • Literature
  • Judgement

• In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

  

  Richard Rohr
  • Opinion
  • Religion
  • Organized

• The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Character
  • Opinion
  • Reasons

• It's very much a back and forth conversation between the fans and the writers, between the writers and the powers that be. Their opinions, especially when expressed online or via correspondence, are important and are taken into consideration.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Important
  • Taken
  • Opinion

• There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Opinion
  • Advice
  • Determined

• I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was there. As a comedian, I'm always listening to the audience. And in movies, sometimes the only audience you have is the producer and the director. I like having someone else's opinion, especially if you're on the same wavelength.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Men
  • Vision
  • Listening

• I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Ideas
  • Feelings
  • Comfortable

• As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Government
  • Civilization
  • Developed

• The fact that there is no right or wrong is what I think is maddening. I can think you're a phenomenal actor, but the guy next door can think you're a horrible actor, and neither of us is wrong and neither of us is right. It's just a matter of opinion.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Opinion
  • Phenomenal actor
  • Horrible actor

• Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Men
  • Love
  • Opinion

• You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Important
  • Attention
  • Stories

• Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Opinion
  • Lie

• A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Friends
  • Opinion
  • Humiliating

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