Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fredrik Bajer

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

Freeman Dyson

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

Fred Frith

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

Franz Kafka

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

George Eliot

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Gary Pruitt

Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward.

Chris Hardwick

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

Christian Bale

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

George W. Bush

I was always at about 70/30. About 70 percent of the people of my district appreciated me, and about 30 percent had quite another view of me.

George Soros

An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.

George Soros

Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

George Peppard

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

George Orwell

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

Frederick Douglass

In one point of view, we, the abolitionists and colored people, should meet [the Dred Scott] decision, unlooked for and monstrous as it appears, in a cheerful spirit. This very attempt to blot out forever the hopes of an enslaved people may be one necessary link in the chain of events preparatory to the downfall and complete overthrow of the whole slave system.

Frederick Buechner

People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Frank Smith

You can't see other people's point of view when you have only one language.

George F. Kennan

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.

George Eliot

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

Felicity Huffman

By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.

Fay Godwin

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

F. Murray Abraham

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

Ezra Pound

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

Francis Parker Yockey

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts

Francis Collins

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Francis Crick

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

Francis Crick

What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be quite erroneous? And what would be more important than to find our true place in the universe by removing one by one these unfortunate vestiges of earlier beliefs?

Francis Chan

...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.

Francis Bacon

The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

Erwin Schrodinger

I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.

Flemming Rose

There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints will be labelled as heresy and blasphemy. Why? Because the society is built on religion - not freedom for all points of view.

Flannery O'Connor

When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns.

Henry Moore

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.