Opinion Quotes

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

~ Luca Guadagnino

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

~ Donald Norman

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

~ Nikola Tesla

I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.

~ Rand Paul

It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.

~ Lyle Lovett

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

~ Elizabeth Drew

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

~ John Le Carré

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

~ John Le Carré

Transactional politics requires us to be pragmatic about current realities and the state of public opinion. It's all about getting the best result possible given the circumstances here and now.

~ Eric Schneiderman

I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.

~ Olivia Wilde

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

~ Gary Johnson

The world is governed by opinion.

~ William Ellery Channing

There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great.

~ Angela Merkel

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

~ Sallust

There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion.

~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

~ William Lyon Mackenzie King

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

~ Lewis Mumford

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

~ Mackenzie King

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

~ Woodrow Wilson

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

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

~ Edward Wood

In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.

~ Donald Bren

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

~ Alfred Austin

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

~ Elon Musk

My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the best.

~ Lauren Lee Smith

The car industry has invested a lot in hybrid, but my opinion is electric cars will take over a lot of hybrids quicker than people think now.

~ Henrik Fisker

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

~ Jackie Robinson

Upsi is definitely the more romantic of the two. I am more laid back. We do have our differences of opinion sometimes. Upsi is always the first one to break the ice after an argument or a difference of opinion. That's what I love most about her.

~ Ram Charan

In my opinion, British women are more romantic than French ones.

~ Jean-Michel Jarre

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.

~ Jimmy Carter

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.

~ Alfred Russel Wallace

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

~ Samuel Adams

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

~ Thomas Malthus

People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important.

~ Rajeev Shukla

All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.

~ Ceelo Green

History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.

~ Richard Lamm

But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

~ Ted Demme

You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.

~ Don Lemon