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views hands years
Edward Gibbon The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of German manners. The disposal of the landed property within their district was absolutely vested in their hands, and they distributed it every year according to a new division. At the same time, they were not authorised to punish with death, to imprison, or even to strike, a private citizen.
views political literature
Edith Wharton I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
views rights political
David Horowitz I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.
views individuality world
David Hockney I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.
views mind world
David Hockney It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.
views dating people
David Brooks I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.
views conservative
Denis Leary I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.
views female point-of-view
Denis Leary I wanted a more female point of view.
understanding vietnam realizing
Alan Moore As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.
understanding important president
Dean Acheson The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
understanding criticism taste
David Hume Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.
understanding want prudent
Dee Hock The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
understanding affair reason
Carlos Castaneda You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small
understanding mind wish
Charlotte Lamb I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!
understanding world rounds
Charles Baudelaire The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
understanding information moments
Charlie Kaufman Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.
understanding gold hoarding
Charlie Munger I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.
world would-be birth
Alan Watts Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
world marvelous
Alan Watts The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.
world meaningless
Alan Watts Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.
world going-through-changes stills
Alan Price Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.
world save-the-world please
Alan Moore Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...
world clock made
Alan Moore Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.
world advantage knows
Alan Moore One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
world september
Alan Jackson Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?
world
Alan Bean I have the nicest life in the world.