Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Foot

There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate

Michael Faraday

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

Michael Behe

Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.

Melissa Etheridge

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

Michele Bachmann

A woman (Terri Schiavo) was healthy. There was brain damage, there was no question. But from a health point of view, she was not terminally ill.

Michele Bachmann

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

Michael Parkinson

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Neale Donald Walsch

It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress.

Nancy Pelosi

Our view of the law is that it - if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.

Mordecai Richler

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

Mila Kunis

If I'm not comfortable in my own skin or confident in who I am, then I'm going to pick parts based on how people are going to view them, not based on what I find challenging or entertaining.

Milan Kundera

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.

Marcel Proust

The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

Marcel Proust

We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

John Tukey

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

John Turner

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

John Sununu

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

John Rawls

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

James Hutton

When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole presents a machine of a peculiar construction by which it is adapted to a certain end. We perceive a fabric, erected in wisdom, to obtain a purpose worthy of the power that is apparent in the production of it.

James Richardson

The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time.

James Ransone

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places Ive been.

James Fallows

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

Lamar S. Smith

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in comparison with which there can be no question whatever of mischief due to sin, for the merely gradual and imperfect unfolding of the power of the God-consciousness is one of the necessary conditions of the human stage of existence.

Friedrich Engels

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Friedrich August von Hayek

By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.

Harvey Mackay

If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view

Jacques Ellul

Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category of science and only a short period of time

Henry A. Kissinger

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.