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There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world
Paul Dirac

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
Maggie Gyllenhaal

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world has reached such a degree of interdependence... that international cooperation has become essential... the only self-supporting region of the world is the whole world... Only one opinion and only one market cover the face of the earth.
Salvador De Madariaga

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You may fail to shine, in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them
Fulke Greville

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.
Lord Byron

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Neil Gaiman

The world is governed by opinion.
Thomas Hobbes

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell

Central Africans are free to express their opinions without fear of imprisonment.
Francois Bozize

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W H Auden

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Andre Maurois

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
John Stuart Mill

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
William Jones

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.
Robert G Allen

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill

I've never been influenced by their opinions anyway but now we are talking tennis and they didn't know anything [on tennis journalists].
Tim Henman

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers]
Stephanie McMahon

I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced any vote (Attributed)
Sir James Ferguson

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas Macarthur

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
W B Yeats

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds
Martial

I agree, she has a good backhand, but that's it. Not a good serve. She plays well, obviously. From my opinion, it's nothing special. (On Sesil Karatancheva)
Magui Serna

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
Ulysses S Grant

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions
Sir James Mackintosh

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge

I believe that artists should never relinquish all production control, which, in my opinion, is entering dangerous territory.
Veruca Salt

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.
Frederick Scott Oliver

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them
Flannery O'Connor

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man
William Ralph Inge

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
John Dawkins

I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all over the world. It's been overwhelming. It's really changed my opinion of humanity.
Greg Norman

If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
Samuel Butler

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force
Blaise Pascal

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Edward Bernays

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Alan Brien

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
John Milton

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful in my opinion.
Margaret Forster

I'm no bimbo. I'm opinionated and I do have a brain...
Christina Aguilera

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
John Stuart Mill

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Chuang Tzu

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.
George Gallup

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
Bishop Jeremy Taylor



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