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In my opinion, not enough people have looked their dinner in the eyes and considered the circle of life.

- Ron Swanson

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’

- Sydney J. Harris

The time to relax is - when you don't have time for it.

- Sydney J. Harris

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

- John Mason Brown

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

- Martha Gellhorn

I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.

- Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Well if you were asking my personal opinion on that I think the answer can only be yes but it was missed. Much as I know I'm responsible for a lot of things, I can't wear any responsibility for that.

- John Anderson

You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with.

- Steve Nash

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

- Ivan Turgenev

I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.

- Danielle Dax

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

- Fredrik Bajer

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

- John Trumbull

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

- Jack Kerouac

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

- Edmund Burke

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

- Sydney J. Harris

One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.

- Roy H. Williams

Public opinion is a second conscience.

- William R. Alger

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

- Bruce Jackson

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

- Sydney J. Harris

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

- Charles Caleb Colton

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

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

- Sydney J. Harris

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

- Percy Ross

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

- Walter Cronkite

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

- Timothy Garton Ash

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

- Barack Obama

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

- Harry Oppenheimer

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

- Robert Hall

Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, good hand speed and combinations and one of the greatest fighters of all time in my opinion.

- Larry Holmes

In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States.

- Paul Broun