Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Abbey

Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

Aristotle

...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.

Aristotle

When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.

Bashar al-Assad

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

Ed Miliband

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

How anyone, in view of the protracted sufferings of the race, can invest the laws of the universe with a tender loving fatherly intelligence, watching, guiding and protecting humanity, is to me amazing.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

Elena Kagan

What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

Deepak Chopra

When you look at nutrition from a purely scientific point of view, there is no place for consciousness. And yet, consciousness could be one of the crucial determinants of the metabolism of food itself.

Deepak Chopra

One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety.

Ludwig von Mises

All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter.

Chris Crutcher

No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see.

Dennis Ritchie

From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

Dennis Prager

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

Dennis Prager

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

Dee Dee Myers

Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.

Dee Dee Myers

You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside the White House, as you learned, sometimes with painful experience, have competing agendas, have differing points of view, have priorities they're trying to protect.

Ricky Gervais

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better

Brian Cox

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

Brian Eno

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

David Nicholls

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .

Abdul Kalam

Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.

Abdul Kalam

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Big Sean

Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view.

It allows you to take a view on probabilities.

Carl Bernstein

In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral units, instead of positive, negative and imaginary (or even impossible), such an obscurity would have been out of the question.

C. S. Lewis

Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.

Chris Pine

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

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.