Quotes About Opinion

When people call up Rush Limbaugh and say, 'It's an honor to speak to you,' I want to shoot myself.

Poiché mi sembrate un intenditore d'arte, vi chiedo il permesso di mostrarvi un giorno o l'altro la mia galleria, ricca di quadri antichi, tutti di grandi autori; i moderni non mi piacciono. - Avete ragione; essi hanno, almeno, un grande difetto: di non aver avuto ancora il tempo di diventare antichi.

But you are quite of opinion, are you not, that Heaven will avenge me, d'Artagnan? And I know some persons on earth who will lend a helping hand, said the captain.

You know, Granna, going around saying how you don't watch TV... It's not even pretentious anymore... it's just plain out of it.

In 1992, 54% of the British public felt that the Labour Party was "good for one class" rather than for all classes, whereas only 14% held that view in in 1997.

I put it to him bluntly: 'Look here, Oleg—you're a charming escort, but in my opinion you are a very poor risk for a marriage.'" And then Margaret Kelly said something that might have turned Grace's resentment into loud laughter: "Of course I never interfere, even when I do not approve.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

I've always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists.

My people keep telling me I shouldn't write letters like this to critics. The way I see it, critics get to say what they want to about my work, so why shouldn't I be able to say what I want to about theirs?

Historians are trained to look for personal biography in every idea, no matter how scientifically objective it is supposed to be, and to look for the influence of contemporary opinion on the rise and fall of scientific theories.

You say romantic, I say stalker," Kerry grumbled to Fiona as they pushed their way into the Rusty Puffin. "Please," Fiona retorted, adding an eye roll for good measure. She was a master of those. "Mr. Dead Sexy From Down Under, a hardworking, successful man you greatly admired, with a family you apparently adored, flies halfway around the world to propose to you? Take a poll. That's off-the-charts romantic.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

You want to know what my doctor said the first time she saw it? Yes you do. She said everything about it gives evidence of an informed taste. That's a quote.

Women's football is crap. If it were any good people would go and watch it, but it isn't and they don't. And, to be honest, I doubt they ever will.

It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.

Confirmation Bias, which had been demonstrated time and again in numerous experiments. Once we formed an opinion or took a position, be it in politics, the worthiness of a television show, or global warming, we tended to filter new data, seizing on anything that agreed with our position and dismissing or ignoring anything contrary, no matter how valid. We would cling to our positions, even in the face of what should be incontrovertible evidence against them.

Truth doesn't matter! It's what people will believe that matters.

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.

The author of The Female Eunuch had only dealt with trans issues in depth once in her career. In her 1999 book The Whole Woman Germaine Greer devoted a ten-page chapter ('Pantomime Dames') to her contention that people who were born men could not be classed as women.

Twenty-two percent of people who identified as "very liberal" said they thought the police shot at least ten thousand unarmed black men in a year. Among self-identified liberals, fully 40 percent thought the figure was between one thousand and ten thousand. The actual figure was somewhere around ten.20

Oh you liked the movie? The book is better

To stay with this girl, you couldnt pay me. I respect a woman but this bitch is crazy.