Quotes About Opinion

It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion .... It does not remain fixed in any unchanging form, but grows with the growth and is altered with the change of the nation's needs and purposes.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

he has never read a single page of any of my books. Once, when I told him I'd love to know what he thinks of them, he demurred. "I couldn't possibly say," he said. "If you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool.

I like Mr. Dickens' books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray's daughters.

When you say 'This is a bad thing that's happening,' how often are you wrong?

Except in situations of extreme uncertainty- invasions, assassinations, epidemics, earthquakes- people don't necessarily want to be told, "That's the way it is." But they do want to be told, "That's the way I think it is," by someone they feel they know, and by someone who lots of their friends feel they know.

Josh likes to say he put the funk in 'functional'. Personally I think he just put the ass in 'embarrassing', but, hey, what do I know?

Majority Christian opinion on various issues has sometimes shifted profoundly.

They weren't bad, were they? I thought Johnny Giles was ace." "Fuck off," I tell him. "You can bloody walk back to Leeds for that.

I want it said loudly and clearly that we can define racism in many ways, but it is, in my opinion, intellectually disingenuous to define it in a way that trivializes the role that racial hatred plays. Certainly, not all racism is hate-driven, but to ignore the connection between racial hate and racism is to reduce the concept of racism to a useless theoretical abstraction.

every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

You've asked for my opinion and I've given it. There is absolutely no credible evidence, in Massachusetts or elsewhere, of any pre-Columbus exploration of America other than the Viking settlement in Newfoundland.

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man; when a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

Evidence-based practice requires no evidence when what it refers to is practice based on guidelines in which the quality of the evidence is based, and in which level E is solely expert opinion.

Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan - a Mount Rushmore of incompetence.

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art

But being a child, he'd never been asked for his opinion.

Miz Cooper says don't pay her no mind because she is most likely one of them Duck River Baptists and probably a Republican ...

I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.

Adlai has a third rate mind that he can't make up.

Unfettered political correctness is leading us into the singularity of stupidity

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

Deanna Raybourn