Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Steffen

By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings - because our own personal emissions are just the tip of a vast iceberg of energy and resources consumed far from our view.

Aleksandar Hemon

The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

Aleister Crowley

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

Aleister Crowley

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

Albert Einstein

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

Alfred North Whitehead

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

Alexander Downer

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

Alexander Cockburn

Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too

Albert Einstein

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

Albert Einstein

There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views

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.

Donella Meadows

Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

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.

Della Reese

Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that's exciting to me.

Amartya Sen

We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.

Amber Heard

We come from a somewhat puritanical and chauvinistic point-of-view, so that when we're asked questions about women being empowered by sexuality, we often confuse it with women who are victimized by it.

Andrew Weil

In my view, the best gift is one that benefits both the receiver and the planet.