Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Turner

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

John Sununu

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

John Rawls

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

James Hutton

When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole presents a machine of a peculiar construction by which it is adapted to a certain end. We perceive a fabric, erected in wisdom, to obtain a purpose worthy of the power that is apparent in the production of it.

James Richardson

The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time.

James Ransone

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places Ive been.

James Fallows

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

Lamar S. Smith

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in comparison with which there can be no question whatever of mischief due to sin, for the merely gradual and imperfect unfolding of the power of the God-consciousness is one of the necessary conditions of the human stage of existence.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Friedrich Engels

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Friedrich August von Hayek

By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.

Harvey Mackay

If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view

Jacques Ellul

Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category of science and only a short period of time

Henry A. Kissinger

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

Henry A. Kissinger

In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.

Helen Fisher

Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

Helen Fisher

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

Henry Giroux

Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American society that any form of critique which calls official power into question is somehow un-American. This absurd attempt to define any critique of official power as unpatriotic has a chilling effect on faculty, especially when such views and the names of the people to whom they are ascribed are widely disseminated in right-wing and dominant media outlets.

Malcolm Turnbull

Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security.

Malcolm X

One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make certain that this image is distasteful, and then anything that that person has to say from thereon, from thereon in, is rejected.

Mahatma Gandhi

My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

John C. Maxwell

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

Johannes Stark

In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta.

John Adams

It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.

Robert Reischauer

This has to be viewed with some skepticism,

Eric Hoffer

The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common sense, our practical point of view. Actually, these are names for an all-absorbing familiarity with things as they are. . . . Thus it happens that when the times become unhinged, it is the practical people who are caught unaware . . . still clinging to things that no longer exist.

James Franco

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

Jacques Lipchitz

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

Jacques Monod

Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by the law of increasing entropy, that is to say, the second law of thermodynamics. This is far more than a mere comparison: the second law is founded upon considerations identical to those which establish the irreversibility of evolution. Indeed, it is legitimate to view the irreversibility of evolution as an expression of the second law in the biosphere.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The essential qualities of a true Pan Americanism must be the same as those which constitute a good neighbor; namely, mutual understanding, and through such understanding, a sympathetic appeciation of the other's point of view. It is only in this manner that we can hope to build up a system of which confidence, friendship, and good will are the cornerstones...