Quotes about views
views poetry literature
I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been. William Empson
views
To marry is to get a binocular view of life. William Ralph Inge
views acting tools
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph. William Boyd
views water substance
The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved. Wilhelm Ostwald
views development creation
The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.
views hypnosis heaven
I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell. Will Carleton
views psychology heuristics
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. Wilhelm Wundt
views healthy tears
Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view. Wilkie Collins
views feelings degrees
However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition. Wilhelm von Humboldt
views diversity understanding
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives. Yo-Yo Ma
views canvas good-things
It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture. Winston Churchill
views land two
These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days.
views humanity denial
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most vile murder does not, in my view, release the state from constitutional restraint on the destruction of human dignity. William J. Brennan
views issues government
In our election manifesto is: we keep the right to create money and to bring in circulation, for the cause of the government ... Those who do not share this view, reply us to the issue of paper money is for the banks, the government should stay out of the banking business. I agree with Jefferson's opinion ... and just like him I say again: the issue of money is a matter for the government and the banks should stay out of government activity. William Jennings Bryan
views orlando solitary
Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone. Virginia Woolf
views personality acting
It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked. Viola Spolin
views two way
Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment. Virchand Gandhi
views important ends
We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view. William Westmoreland
views criticism association
Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear. William Merritt Chase
views brain unbroken
As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream. William James
views world
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
views bird different
As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.
views concentration-of-wealth economic-history
We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution. Will Durant
views criticism trying
If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this." I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing. Wesley Morris
views interpretation
Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.
views voice important
I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.
views design together
No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design. Whittaker Chambers
views communism bad-things
I don't really view communism as a bad thing. Whoopi Goldberg
views perspective long
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. Warren G. Bennis
views mirrors government
The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind. Ronald Reagan
views done point-of-view
If anything can be done, it can be overdone is my point of view. Winston Smith
views tolerance degrees
I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier. Will Self
views perspective feminist
Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted. Warren Farrell