Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg Cantor

I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Georg Cantor

This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

Gertrude Stein

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

Ian Mcewan

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

Ian Mcewan

It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

Ian Mcewan

Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.

I don't want to go into my view at the moment.

Hugo Weaving

One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say "Well, I'm now going to have three months where I'm just going to hang out and be with the family".

Howard Shore

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

Ibrahim Babangida

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

Harvey V. Fineberg

Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.

Hassan Nasrallah

The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.

Hassan Nasrallah

If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine.

Harold Ramis

It doesn't take any longer to improvise 10 takes than it takes to shoot 10 takes of the same thing. It turns out to be just as responsible from a business point of view as anything else.

Iyanla Vanzant

Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being open to accept the views of others without feeling threatened or defeated, relinquishing the ego's need to be in control by demonstrating the willingness to do whatever it takes to establish peace.

Elon Musk

One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

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.

Paul Ryan

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

Paul Greengrass

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

Patrick Leahy

In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness.

Jurgen Habermas

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

Julia Ormond

And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Don't be limited in your views with regard to your neighbor's virtue...You must enlarge your soul towards each other.

Paul R. Ehrlich

We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.

Leroy Hood

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

Neal A. Maxwell

How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection!

Natan Sharansky

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

Natasha Lyonne

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.