Quotes of: Public-opinion Keyword

Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Ambrose Bierce

I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

Adam Levine

All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion.

Ash Vaz

Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.

Robert MacNeil

The worst time to give someone your opinion, is when no one has asked for it.

Life

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Voltaire

There is the history of opinions which is hardly anything but a collection of human errors.

Voltaire

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Will Rogers

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

Kevin Powers

There is such a thing as bad publicity.

Joyce Brothers

The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the experts consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so. (The proviso is...

Sceptical Essays

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

Life of Geoffrey Chaucer; The Early English Poet: Including Memoirs of His Near Friend and Kinsman, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster: With Sketches of the Manners, Opinions, Arts and Literature of England in the Fourteenth Century Volume 1

Robert Bork, at opening of Judiciary hearings: How should a judge go about finding the law? The only legitimate way, in my opinion, is by attempting to discern what those who made the law intended... As I wrote in an opinion for our court, the judge'...

Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

Bitch (noun): A woman who won't bang her head against the wall obsessing over someone else's opinion - be it a man or anyone else in her life. She understands that if someone does not approve of her, it's just one person's opinion; therefore, it's of...

Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

It could be a thousand things, distractions, worries; but very often I think what keeps a writer from finding the words is that she grasps at them too soon, hurries, grabs. She doesn’t wait for the wave to come in and break. She wants to write beca...

Ursula K. Le Guin

You've got to change with the public's taste.

Nat King Cole

Plenty of patrons had asked me strange things, but this was the first who asked me where my car was parked. It was almost comical to look at the man, because he actually thought I was going to tell him. I struggled to come up with a reply, but the be...

Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

In the specific case of the use of the term “false memory” to describe errors in details in laboratory tasks (e.g., in word-learning tasks), the media and public are set up all too easily to interpret such research as relevant to “false memorie...

Jennifer J. Freyd

If you're getting chased by a lion, you don't need to run faster than the lion, just the people running with you. - Tim Ferris

Do You Talk Funny? 7 Comedy Habits to Become a Better (and Funnier) Public Speaker

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business