Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

I don't view myself as a musician anymore - I view myself as a human being that functions as a musician when I'm functioning as a musician, but that's not 24 hours a day. That's really opened me up to even more perspectives because now I look at music, not from the standpoint of being a musician, but from the standpoint of being a human being.

Herman Melville

I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.

Herb Kohl

We give Supreme Court justices this freedom because we expect them to remain above the pull of politics, to avoid the effects of public excitement and allow a broader view, not tied to the whims of the majority at a certain moment in history.

Herb Kohl

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

Henry David Thoreau

If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few features, and we need to reconsider our experience from many points of view and in various moods in order to perceive the whole.

Henry David Thoreau

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Jessica Lange

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

Iyanla Vanzant

Have the courage to speak your mind and tell the truth from a position of love rather than anger or fear, being open to accept the views of others without feeling threatened or defeated, relinquishing the ego's need to be in control by demonstrating the willingness to do whatever it takes to establish peace.

Elon Musk

One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

Ian Mcewan

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

Ian Mcewan

It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

Ian Mcewan

Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Evan Davis

I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

Evan Davis

I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on.

Evan Glodell

It's a relationship I went through that collapsed my entire view of the world in a very extreme way.

Esther Dyson

From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

Erwin Schrodinger

I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'.

Flemming Rose

There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints will be labelled as heresy and blasphemy. Why? Because the society is built on religion - not freedom for all points of view.

Flannery O'Connor

When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will continue to turn so that no front view is possible. The thing to do then is to stand still and wait until it pleases him to turn. When it suits him, the peacock will face you. Then you will see in a green-bronze arch around him a galaxy of gazing, haloed suns.

Henry Moore

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.

Jeffrey Skoll

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Seeing people in person is a big part of how you drive any change process. You have to show people a positive view of the future and say "we can do it"

Jeffrey Sachs

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.

Jean Chretien

Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed by officials, academics, or economists who know every science but the science of human nature.

James A. Baldwin

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

Christopher Landsea

I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process [IPCC process] that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound.

Christopher Landsea

I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to which my expertise is relevant as having become politicized. In addition, when I have raised my concerns to the IPCC leadership, their response was simply to dismiss my concerns.

Christopher Hitchens

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.