Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hugo Black

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

Howard Barker

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

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.

Fay Godwin

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

F. Murray Abraham

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

Ezra Pound

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

Francis Parker Yockey

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts

Francis Collins

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Francis Crick

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

Francis Crick

What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be quite erroneous? And what would be more important than to find our true place in the universe by removing one by one these unfortunate vestiges of earlier beliefs?

Francis Chan

...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.

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.

Jean Piaget

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Jean-Claude Juncker

I'm always quite amazed that people in Europe become unnerved when two institutions or two people have different views.

Jim Gilmore

Consumers view of you is not about how they compare you to other banks. It's about how they compare you to all of the other businesses they experience.

Jim Henson

I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

Jeff Koons

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

Jesse Jackson

Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned.

Jennifer Lee

We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.

Jennifer Lawrence

I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

Crystal's views are not any different than they were before.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

Dogen

Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.

Stephen Jay Gould

Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.

Stephen Jay Gould

World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.

Terry Pratchett

You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.

Terry Semel

Search, which is extremely important, represents about 5% of the page views on the Internet and 40% of the revenue. So, highly monetized.