Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

Floyd Abrams

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

George Washington

I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

George McGovern

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

George Orwell

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

George Orwell

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

George Meyer

As a John Kerry supporter, I wanted to send him a check. But then it occurred to me that most of that money would end up in the hands of advertising agencies and television networks. And the money would be used to create deceptive commercials that flatter our point of view and shade the facts our way. And I wasn't comfortable with that. But on the other hand, that's how the game is played. You're always grappling.

Franklin Pierce

In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions.

Franz Grillparzer

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

Jeanette Winterson

I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power of withdrawal. If I don't withdraw I have no power at all. A relationship where one person has no power or negative power, isn't a relationship, it's the bond between master and slave.

Jethro Tull

Actor of the low IQ, let's hear your view.

Jessie J

I have always been the first on the dance floor. Before fame, people thought it made me a good laugh; now, people point and call me an attention seeker! I'm very aware of the way people can view me, but I'm very aware that I have to just enjoy my life.

Jerry Springer

I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.

Jerry Springer

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

J. C. Chandor

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

J. C. Ryle

Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.

J. C. Ryle

There are very few errors and false doctrines of which the beginning may not be traced up to unsound views about the corruption of human nature. Wrong views of the disease will always bring with them wrong views of the remedy. Wrong views of the corruption of human nature will always carry with them wrong views of the grand antidote and cure of that corruption.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

Ingrid Bergman

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

Indra Nooyi

I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

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.

Harry Belafonte

I'm called a folk singer, and I'm not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the point of view of a singer, but from the point of view of an actor. That's how I first started to sing.

Hannibal Buress

I'm a dumb guy. My point of view is limited.

Glenn Greenwald

Why is one view permissible and the other criminally barred-other than because the force of law is being used to control political discourse and one form of terrorism (violence in the Muslim world) is done by, rather than to, the west?

Harold Larwood

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.

Ingmar Bergman

My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer.

Jack McDevitt

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

Jack Ma

If you view everyone as your enemies, everyone around you will be your enemies.