Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esther Dyson

From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

To change societies you need to organize with others who share your views.

Graham Hancock

If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.

Harriet Martineau

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. It is characteristic of genius to break up the artificial arrangements of conventionalism, and to view mankind in true perspective, in their gradations of inherent rather than of adventitious worth. Genius is therefore essentially democratic, and has always been so ...

Iain Duncan Smith

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

Hugo Black

The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.

Hugo Black

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

Howard Barker

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

Guy Finley

The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.

Gore Vidal

The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.

Gore Vidal

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

Gore Vidal

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

George Bernard Shaw

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

Gena Showalter

She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. "This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?" "Of course." he said though he had no idea what hairspray was.

Fredrik Bajer

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

Freeman Dyson

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

Fred Frith

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

Franz Kafka

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

George Eliot

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Gary Pruitt

Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward.

Chris Hardwick

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

Christian Bale

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

George W. Bush

I was always at about 70/30. About 70 percent of the people of my district appreciated me, and about 30 percent had quite another view of me.

George Soros

An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.

George Soros

Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

George Peppard

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

George Orwell

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

Frederick Douglass

In one point of view, we, the abolitionists and colored people, should meet [the Dred Scott] decision, unlooked for and monstrous as it appears, in a cheerful spirit. This very attempt to blot out forever the hopes of an enslaved people may be one necessary link in the chain of events preparatory to the downfall and complete overthrow of the whole slave system.

Frederick Buechner

People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Frank Smith

You can't see other people's point of view when you have only one language.

George F. Kennan

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.

George Eliot

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.