Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lancaster Spalding

The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.

John Lancaster Spalding

A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.

John le Carre

Multi-billion-dollar multinational corporations view the exploitation of the world's sick and dying as a sacred duty to their shareholders.

I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys.

Jim Leach

Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.

Jim Lehrer

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

Jim Lehrer

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

Joanna Noelle Levesque

You can be young and still have views and opinions.

Jim Rohn

Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your decisions be a product of your own conclusions.

Elyn Saks

Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I have a lot of trouble forgiving myself for being so dumb... But yes, of course, the big generous compassionate view that you should take of yourself and of all events is: what a glorious circus train this has been, and what a wonderful messy parade, and all of those steps took me here, where I precisely need to be now, so God bless it.

Katherine Boo

One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their parents are. They know their parents have these old views.

Karel Reisz

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

Karen Armstrong

If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.

Karen Armstrong

In order to always treat others, as we would wish to be treated ourselves, we have to learn about each other. Not just relying on an op-ed piece we may have read here, or a half-remembered interview on the television program there that happens to chime with our own views.

Josh Schwartz

Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.

Joseph Conrad

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

Joseph Conrad

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.

Joseph Butler

In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.

Kate Mosse

People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.

John Kasich

When I listen to candidates spend all their time attacking Barack Obama, I'm glad they're not driving this bus because they'd be looking through the rear-view mirror. I look through the windshield at the road ahead.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

Gary Cohn

The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency.

Liz Murray

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

M. H. Abrams

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

Malcolm Forbes

A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

Malcolm Gladwell

Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.

Maimonides

Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become intellectual, and to comprehend things comprehensible to rational beings, are also under the control of Divine Providence, which examines all their deeds with a view of rewarding or punishing them. ...the method of which our mind is incapable of understanding.

Maimonides

Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except him. And if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgement that all that exists is an evil.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

No action can be performed successfully without a clear result in view.

Mahatma Gandhi

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Mahatma Gandhi

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

Mahatma Gandhi

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.