Famous Quotes & Sayings

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

John Tukey

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

John Turner

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

John Sununu

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

John Rawls

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

James Hutton

When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole presents a machine of a peculiar construction by which it is adapted to a certain end. We perceive a fabric, erected in wisdom, to obtain a purpose worthy of the power that is apparent in the production of it.

James Richardson

The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time.

James Ransone

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places Ive been.

James Fallows

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

Lamar S. Smith

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in comparison with which there can be no question whatever of mischief due to sin, for the merely gradual and imperfect unfolding of the power of the God-consciousness is one of the necessary conditions of the human stage of existence.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Friedrich Engels

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Friedrich August von Hayek

By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor; namely, mutual understanding, and through such understanding, a sympathetic appeciation of the other's point of view. It is only in this manner that we can hope to build up a system of which confidence, friendship, and good will are the cornerstones...

George Gilder

Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view- that all ideas are determined by material relationships- is the materialist superstition.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Johnny Carson

Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian.

Johnny Carson

When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only his sense of humor but his value as a humorist.

Luigi Pirandello

My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

Louis Menand

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

Terry Pratchett

You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.

Terry Semel

Search, which is extremely important, represents about 5% of the page views on the Internet and 40% of the revenue. So, highly monetized.

Nonie Darwish

The magnitude of this event (9/11) turned the world into a scary place. And perhaps the scariest part of all was that these terrorists believed they were doing God's work. They were trained to view life on earth as of no value and that no act, no matter how barbaric, was off-limits if in pursuit of jihadd.

Nikolai Gogol

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

Nikola Tesla

A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified? Though we have no positive evidence of a charged body existing in space without other oppositely electrified bodies being near, there is a fair probability that the earth is such a body, for by whatever process it was separated from other bodies - and this is the accepted view of its origin - it must have retained a charge, as occurs in all processes of mechanical separation.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.

Myrtle Reed

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

Millard Fillmore

I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.