Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shirley Williams

It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.

Sheri S. Tepper

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

Sherri Shepherd

I was taught not to confront and interrupt people, but that's what I do every day on 'The View.'

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With that perspective, our problems would shrink-or never arise at all-and we could celebrate our earthly differences while shunning the behavior of our predecessors who slaughtered each other because of them.

Neil Gaiman

The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

Neil Gaiman

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

Neil Gaiman

Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

I've never bought a stock unless, in my view, it was on sale.

John Muir

Keep in view the common good of the people for all time.

John Muir

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.

John Wesley Powell

You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.

John Wayne

Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . .

John Podhoretz

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

John Piper

If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.

John Piper

Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

Mark Parker

I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.

Nick Jonas

Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - thats how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.

Seth Lloyd

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.

Seth Lloyd

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

Ravi Zacharias

Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other than the karmic system. There's no linear movement or point of accountability toward God.

Tom Cole

So "Embrace Of The Serpent" is told from the points of view and in the languages of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. He [Guerra] went there before shooting began, with a script written mostly in Spanish.

Slash

Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.

Slash

That's always stuck with me, with music. I've never really gotten jaded about it. I've always loved music for the sake of doing it, and the longer I do it, the more I like it. Hopefully, I'll be able to have that same point of view in this business, or at least with doing this.

Skip Bertman

Everytime I go to Starkville I ask for a room without a view

Socrates

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

Mercedes Ruehl

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

Thabo Mbeki

One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question

Thabo Mbeki

A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse.

Thabo Mbeki

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

Terry Pratchett

Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.

Margaret Mead

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

Margaret Drabble

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed