Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Corgan

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.

Aristide Briand

But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial.

Anton Yelchin

And also, that's the kind of wonderful thing about film culture, is the interaction between films and who works on what, where they were before, and now what they're doing now, and that inevitably informs how people view a film.

Antonio Machado

I. Don't trace out your profile-- forget your side view-- all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren't.

Brooks Atkinson

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Edmund Burke

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Eckhart Tolle

It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places where there is violent conflict...It gives us a slightly or very distorted view of what is going on because there are many other parts of the planet where there is no violent conflict, but that is not on the news.

Bob Woodward

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

Billy Eckstine

My view is that you cannot close your mind and say I don't want to listen to this or that. Because if you can't appreciate the bad for being bad, you can't appreciate the good. If you turn a deaf ear to everything but one style, pretty soon it's not going to work out.

Billy Joel

I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.

Bill Keller

My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.

Edward Gibbon

The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of German manners. The disposal of the landed property within their district was absolutely vested in their hands, and they distributed it every year according to a new division. At the same time, they were not authorised to punish with death, to imprison, or even to strike, a private citizen.

Edith Wharton

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

David Horowitz

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

David Hockney

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

David Hockney

It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.

David Brooks

I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.

Edward Kennedy

A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the life that they're leading with you. Shared values and interests. A good sense of humour. And a little volatility along the way.

Edward Kennedy

It is extraordinary that each of the three individuals this president [ George W. Bush] has nominated for the Supreme Court - Chief Justice [John] Roberts, Harriet Miers and now Judge Alito - has served not only as a lawyer for the executive branch, but has defended the most expansive view of presidential authority.

Edward Kennedy

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

Edward Kennedy

Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

Bobby Jindal

The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with.

Benjamin Franklin

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

Benjamin Franklin

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.

Barbara Tuchman

Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different

Arthur Conan Doyle

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

Arthur C. Clarke

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

Barry Zito

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

Austin Mahone

I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.

Diana Vreeland

Most people haven't got a point of view; they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.