If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. – Gelett Burgess
I’m such a chronic relativist, I can’t hold down a strong opinion about many things long enough. – Hugh Grant
I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision. – Haruki Murakami
In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners. – Goose Gossage
Playing in front of 25,000 people and millions more on television, and performing and doing what I worked so hard to try to accomplish was, in my opinion, the ultimate. Do I miss it? Of course I do. – Jimmy Connors
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. – James F. Cooper
I do put my questions in terms of the sharpest polarities of the issue. But I don’t want a preponderance of opinion over factual data. – John McLaughlin
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. – James Madison
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief. – Jacques Ellul
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. – Johan Huizinga
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. – Jacques Lacan
I don’t want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn’t mean you have less of a right. – John Travolta
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion. – James F. Cooper
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. – Josiah Gilbert Holland
In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless. – John C. Calhoun
I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media. – John le Carre
‘Celebrity’ is sort of an idea. I mean, I get to do something extraordinary, but I don’t think it makes me extraordinary. That’s my opinion. I like to be an artist; I like to do things that are involved in the arts, but I don’t think it makes me more special than a doctor, for example. A doctor is an extraordinary person. – Justin Timberlake
It’s interesting – a lot of what you accomplish in your lifetime either as an individual or as a company is determined by other people. I mean, you can do interview after interview and defend a point of view, but more often than not, the collective kind of opinion will be the one viewed historically and taken as gospel. – Jim Lee
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. – John Maynard Keynes
I respect every guy that has walked away. I think every single guy in this league makes his own decision, and that’s perfectly fine. The reason I respect that and the reason I think every guy has his own way of dealing with things is because, in my personal opinion, I know what I’m getting into. – J. J. Watt
I’m not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film. – Jasper Fforde
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. – Jack Kerouac
It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different. – John Archibald Wheeler
In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted. – Jackie Robinson
My personal opinion is that you can’t be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn’t an illegal act, whereas being racist can be. – Jo Brand
