Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

Madonna Ciccone

I'm sure other people have a very strange view of my lifestyle.

Mac Thornberry

My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

Lucretius

So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

Lizz Winstead

If you're a woman and you've decided to step in front of people on any kind of platform and say that you have feelings about anything, you are committing a radical act. People view it as such, so you might as well actually commit a radical act.

Michael Dell

The key to using the Internet to extend and build relationships is to view ownership of information differently-you need to bring customers inside your business to create information partnerships ... relationships become the differentiator, more than products or services. Businesses become intertwined.

Michael Winterbottom

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

Michael Schenker

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

Michael Richards

I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.

Mark Twain

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

Marianne Williamson

The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not out faults, but our wounds. God doesn't want to punish us, but to heal us. And that is how He wishes us to view the wounds in other people.

Mark Victor Hansen

Obstacles are only in your view when you don't have a clear enough focus on your goal.

Marguerite Duras

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

Naomi Shihab Nye

What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.

Miyamoto Musashi

With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view.

Mitt Romney

With regards to my views on protecting a woman's right to choose, I've been very clear on that. I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose. And I'm devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard. I am pro-choice.

R. D. Laing

Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.

R. C. Sproul

The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.

R. C. Sproul

The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.

Pratibha Patil

It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the public mind should be one where proceedings, debates and discussions take place with a view to resolve issues through a constructive and co-operative approach.

Nelson Mandela

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

Nelson Mandela

If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they can never like you. And you can never build that instrument of collective leadership.

Kristen Stewart

You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

I do serve on various boards and I'm very honest and frank, obviously. I am a very forthright person and I do, sort of, share my candid views on anything.

Oprah Winfrey

You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.

Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated. What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.

Oliver Goldsmith

Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.

Oliver Goldsmith

But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies; My fortune leads to traverse reams alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.

Oliver Goldsmith

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

Okky Madasari

Orientalism has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.

Margaret Atwood

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

Margaret Atwood

You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.