Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Lopez

The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes.

B. F. Skinner

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.

Big Sean

Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view.

Antoni Tapies

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

Bill Vaughan

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

Bill Vaughan

In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.

Bertrand Russell

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

Al Gore

There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.

Charles Darwin

When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.

Ashton Kutcher

Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

Brian Collins

That's the real tonic for these programs and why (people) come back and do them again. It's overcoming something powerful.

Ahmet Zappa

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

Britt Ekland

Fame overcomes everything.

Albert Schweitzer

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

Alan Cohen

All limits exist only in thought, and that is where they are overcome.

A. C. Benson

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

David Belle

There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome.

David Belle

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

Robert Rosenberg

There are obstacles here that are artificial. There?s really no reason why it should be taking this long,

Alan Taylor

He truly is one of the most optimistic persons that I think I've ever been around. It's amazing, with all the disabilities and obstacles that he's had to overcome, that he's remained so positive.

Diane Keaton

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Tommy Bailey

There are a lot of obstacles to be overcome.

Daisaku Ikeda

Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.

Saeb Erekat

We had in-depth discussions and very serious talks on all issues. There were no results. The differences and obstacles are still there.

Anne Lamott

You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.

D. H. Lawrence

There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.

Daphne Koller

Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.