Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garrison Keillor

You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and- and if you're lucky, next week.

Francois Fenelon

Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.

Francois Fenelon

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

George Deukmejian

The Supreme Court, or any court, when they make a decision, if that's a published decision, it becomes virtually like a statute. Everybody is suppose to follow that law. Whether I decide to allow a law to become a law without my signature is simply in effect expressing a view that while I don't particularly care for this, the Legislature passed it, it was an overwhelming. vote, or maybe there were other reasons. But my decision not to sign doesn't have to be followed by everybody from that point on

Geddy Lee

So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.

Geena Davis

My scripts are always filled with notes. I like to just analyze everything from the point of view of the whole picture, of the movie, my whole picture.

Gary Cohn

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

Edward Bond

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion

Edith Hamilton

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

Eckhart Tolle

I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego. Then I have to switch on the TV to realize, "Oh, no, it is not happening to everybody yet." But it is happening.

Henry Vaughan

Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

Jonny Wilkinson

My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

Kathy Reichs

Im studying jerkoffs in the wild," Ben answered dryly. "This seemed like a good chance to view one up close.

Narendra Modi

My 'Idea of India' calls not just for tolerance, but a celebration of all points of view. Where the sensibilities of every individual are respected

Narendra Modi

We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

Napoleon Hill

Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

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.

Freya Stark

Like a human being, the mountain is a composite creature, only to be known after many a view from many a different point, and repaying this loving study, if it is anything of a mountain at all, by a gradual revelation of personality, an increase of significance ...

Fred Upton

Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

Francois Hollande

France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.