Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Bierce

ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.

Anthony Holden

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.

Alicia Keys

Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad.

Alice Walker

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And it was a magic which could only strike spark about that time. A few years earlier, from the point of view of aircraft alone, it would have been impossible to reach these places; a few later, and there will be no such isolation.

Alexander McCall Smith

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

Debbie Ford

Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.

E. P. Thompson

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

E. O. Wilson

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

Drew Bledsoe

I'm not fast. But there are a lot of guys that are a hell of a lot slower than I am. Somebody wants to do a pay-per-view race between me and [Tom] Brady, sign me up.

Doug Aitken

I am fascinated by the indecisive moment and the peripheral view.

Dorothy Richardson

The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

Donna Karan

I don't feel burdened, but I do feel a little frustrated. Because I see the problem, and I can see the solution - but there are two strongly different points of view on this - like the Republicans and Democrats.

Donald Davidson

The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability.

Dudley Moore

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

Donald Rumsfeld

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

Donald Rumsfeld

When asked for your views, by the press or others, remember that what they really want to know is the President's views.

Claude Bernard

It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question without an idea which invites an answer. I consider it, therefore, an absolute principle that experiments must always be devised in view of a preconceived idea, no matter if the idea be not very clear nor very well defined.

Dalai Lama

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

Dick Francis

I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.

Deval Patrick

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.

Desmond Tutu

There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

Dave Winfield

I always enjoy watching Derek Jeter play because he is a model of consistency both in the field and at the plate. I finished my career with 3,110 hits, and I have only admiration and respect for Derek. I hope he pauses to admire the view and keeps going. Just one more achievement in an incredible career.

David Mamet

It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its avatar, its prime issue, has been abortion. For, whether or not it is regarded as a woman's right, an unfortunate necessity, or murder, which is to say, irrespective of differing and legitimate political views, to enshrine it as the most important test of the Liberal, is, mythologically, an assertion to the ultimate right of a postreligious Paganism.

Dan Eldon

The most important part of vehicle maintenance is clean windows, so if you are broken down you will enjoy the beauty of the view.

Dan Farmer

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

Danielle Dax

I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.

Daniel Nathans

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.

Cornel West

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

Clifford Stoll

As the networks evolve, so do my opinions toward them, and my divergent feelings bring out conflicting points of view. In advance, I apologize to those who expect a consistent position from me.

David Petersen

Naturally and logically, people who forage rather than herd domestic beasts and tend crops for a living - that is, people who depend utterly on wild as opposed to agriculture nature for their welfare - inevitably come to view themselves as merely an element of it all, one member of an egalitarian community, alternately eating and being eaten.

David Low

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

David Livingstone

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.