Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Frederic Amiel

It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.

Cassandra Clare

While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.

Janeane Garofalo

The handful of corporations that own most of the media outlets have an interest in reflecting establishment views.

Ernst Mach

The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.

Ernst Mach

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

Christopher Hitchens

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

Murray Gell-Mann

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

Mo Udall

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

Mohamed ElBaradei

In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people.

Mindy McCready

I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.

Mindy Kaling

I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms.

Mike Royko

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

Kurt Russell

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

George H. W. Bush

As you know, in the 2000 campaign I articulated a point of view that we ought to have personal savings accounts for younger workers that would make sure those younger workers receive benefits equal to or greater than that which is expected, ... I still maintain the same position.

George H. W. Bush

Don't try to fine-tune somebody else's view.

George H. W. Bush

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

Jim Bunning

The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.

Jay Rockefeller

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.

Jay Roach

I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.

Jay Leno

Al Gore is coming out with a movie about global warming called ' An Inconvenient Truth. ' It's described as a detailed scientific view of global warming. President Bush said he just saw a film about global warming, 'Ice Age 2; The Meltdown.' He said, 'It's so much better than that boring Al Gore movie.'

Javier Solana

The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council.

Camryn Manheim

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people

James Hillman

It's very hard in our adversarial society to find a third view. Take journalism, where everything is always presented as one person against another: "Now we're going to hear the opposing view." There is never a third view.

James Earl Jones

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

James Dobson

God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The heads (Plural) of the Gods appointed one God for us; and when you take that view of the subject, it sets one free to see all the beauty, holiness and perfection of the Gods.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

We are looked upon by God as though we were in eternity; God dwells in eternity, and does not view things as we do.

Knut Hamsun

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

Milton Friedman

If instead of looking at income, you look at levels of consumption, if anything that's become more equal. The fraction of families that have a dishwasher, that have a sewing machine, that have a television set. In respect to consumption, it's very hard to avoid the view that people have been getting more equal rather than more unequal.

Milton Friedman

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

Nate Silver

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

Nate Silver

Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin of error was high in a forecasting model that I might put together. Now I view it as perhaps the single most important piece of information that a forecaster provides. When we publish a forecast on FiveThirtyEight, I go to great lengths to document the uncertainty attached to it, even if the uncertainty is sufficiently large that the forecast won't make for punchy headlines.

Nancy Pearcey

The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes.