Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gore Vidal

The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.

Gore Vidal

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

Gore Vidal

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

Harvey V. Fineberg

Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.

Hassan Nasrallah

The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.

Hassan Nasrallah

If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine.

Harold Ramis

It doesn't take any longer to improvise 10 takes than it takes to shoot 10 takes of the same thing. It turns out to be just as responsible from a business point of view as anything else.

Iyanla Vanzant

Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being open to accept the views of others without feeling threatened or defeated, relinquishing the ego's need to be in control by demonstrating the willingness to do whatever it takes to establish peace.

Elon Musk

One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

Jeff Bezos

Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.

Jeff Bezos

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

Jeff Bezos

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

Jeff Raikes

In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.

Jean Piaget

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Jean-Claude Juncker

I'm always quite amazed that people in Europe become unnerved when two institutions or two people have different views.

Jim Gilmore

Consumers view of you is not about how they compare you to other banks. It's about how they compare you to all of the other businesses they experience.

Jim Henson

I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

Jeff Koons

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

Jesse Jackson

Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned.

Jennifer Lee

We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.

Jennifer Lawrence

I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

Jeffrey Skoll

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Seeing people in person is a big part of how you drive any change process. You have to show people a positive view of the future and say "we can do it"

Jeffrey Sachs

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.

Jean Chretien

Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed by officials, academics, or economists who know every science but the science of human nature.

James A. Baldwin

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

Christopher Landsea

I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process [IPCC process] that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.

Christopher Landsea

I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to which my expertise is relevant as having become politicized. In addition, when I have raised my concerns to the IPCC leadership, their response was simply to dismiss my concerns.

Christopher Hitchens

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

Christopher Hitchens

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Gaston Bachelard

In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.