Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Swallow Richards

It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.

Henry Vaughan

Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.

Henri Matisse

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

Heather Matarazzo

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

Hayden Christensen

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

Henry Kravis

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

Henry James

Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions; make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the American world.

Johann Sebastian Bach

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

Kathy Reichs

Im studying jerkoffs in the wild," Ben answered dryly. "This seemed like a good chance to view one up close.

Narendra Modi

My 'Idea of India' calls not just for tolerance, but a celebration of all points of view. Where the sensibilities of every individual are respected

Narendra Modi

We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

Napoleon Hill

Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

Norman Tebbit

Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

Norman Tebbit

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

Norman Rockwell

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

Norman Geisler

Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold.

Oriana Fallaci

There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

Orhan Pamuk

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

Orhan Pamuk

My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became a heavy burden for me. But I took it on consciously, even though it was torture for me.

Olof Palme

For us, democracy is a question of human dignity. This includes the political liberties, the right to freely express our views, the right to criticize and to influence opinion. It embraces the right to health and work, to education and social security.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

Octavio Paz

Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

Octavio Paz

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

Michael Caine

My view is that you should always remake failures because then you've got nowhere to go but up.

Michael Caine

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

Mason Cooley

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

Mason Cooley

The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention.

Martin Short

Whether arrogantly or what, I view myself simply as an actor.

Michael Arad

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

Melville Fuller

The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.

Mencius

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.