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.

Bill Bruford

People come with expectations and as a bandleader I constantly try to remind the audience to leave its expectations in the lobby.

Bill Bradley

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Al Gore

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

C. S. Lewis

True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.

Catherine Ponder

Whatever the mind is taught to expect, that it will build, produce, and bring forth for you.

Alan Dundes

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Deepak Chopra

Expectations determine outcome, always!

David Nicholls

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

Bruce Bennett

All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.

Bethenny Frankel

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.

Bob Bauman

That was a lot of weight off their shoulders.

Dusty Baker

He can't put any weight on it right now,

Al Gore

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.

Charles Darwin

Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject my theory.

Chris Farley

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Chris Farley

I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.

Burt Young

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

Carnie Wilson

The surgery will always be a huge part of my life. I'm going to need to help people with weight problems for the rest of my life so that I can maintain my weight.