Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Bacon

The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

Floyd Abrams

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

George Washington

I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

George McGovern

It can take greater courage to stand in opposition to the views of your neighbors or nation than to confront an enemy in combat.

George Orwell

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

George Orwell

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

George Meyer

As a John Kerry supporter, I wanted to send him a check. But then it occurred to me that most of that money would end up in the hands of advertising agencies and television networks. And the money would be used to create deceptive commercials that flatter our point of view and shade the facts our way. And I wasn't comfortable with that. But on the other hand, that's how the game is played. You're always grappling.

Christian Bale

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

George W. Bush

I was always at about 70/30. About 70 percent of the people of my district appreciated me, and about 30 percent had quite another view of me.

George Soros

An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.

George Soros

Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

George Peppard

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

George Orwell

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

Frederick Douglass

In one point of view, we, the abolitionists and colored people, should meet [the Dred Scott] decision, unlooked for and monstrous as it appears, in a cheerful spirit. This very attempt to blot out forever the hopes of an enslaved people may be one necessary link in the chain of events preparatory to the downfall and complete overthrow of the whole slave system.

Frederick Buechner

People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Frank Smith

You can't see other people's point of view when you have only one language.

George F. Kennan

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.

George Eliot

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

Felicity Huffman

By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.

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.

Cassandra Clare

While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.

George Eliot

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Gary Pruitt

Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward.

Chris Hardwick

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

J. C. Ryle

Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.

J. C. Ryle

There are very few errors and false doctrines of which the beginning may not be traced up to unsound views about the corruption of human nature. Wrong views of the disease will always bring with them wrong views of the remedy. Wrong views of the corruption of human nature will always carry with them wrong views of the grand antidote and cure of that corruption.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

Ingrid Bergman

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

Indra Nooyi

I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

Franklin Pierce

In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions.