Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.

Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.

W. G. Sebald

It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

William Cobbett

I cannot...perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform...when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.

William Cowper

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

Wayne Dyer

You will find it easier to accept contrary views, knowing that you are not defined by anything or anyone external to yourself.

Wayne Dyer

Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.

Wayne Dyer

A higher concept of yourself involves taking on new truths and shedding your old views of what you can achieve. This is the only way you can achieve your desires.

Roberto Unger

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

Robert Louis Stevenson

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.

Wes Anderson

If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel like it's for the audience. It's about seeing how much texture we can give it and seeing how many things are there for people to latch on to... I just want to do it the way I want and I feel like it won't be helpful for me if I start worrying about that. I just have to follow my instincts. Everyone is going to respond differently to it and everybody's right - that's their point of view. That's how the story intersects with their lives.

Walt Kelly

Looking back on things, the view always improves.

Vinod Khosla

Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

Sarah Dessen

I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass half empty or full, depending on your view. In my life, there has been little that I have done first or better than the one preceding or following me. Of all of us, though, I am the only one who has been broken.

Sandra Day O'Connor

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.

Roger Scruton

Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.

Rod Serling

If the producer doesn't like you, consequently he reads the script with a very negative view. But I wouldn't preoccupy myself with that, I don't give a damn. You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and whatall.

Whittaker Chambers

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

Warren G. Bennis

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Ronald Reagan

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

Winston Smith

If anything can be done, it can be overdone is my point of view.

Will Self

I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier.

Warren Farrell

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

Zainab Salbi

It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.

Yoweri Museveni

Our laws and institutions are excellent, but the population is not yet ready. They must develop their views and need to be provided with the right information. We now also have private broadcasters and many are very critical of me, hostile even, yet they operate freely.

Zhang Yimou

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

Zhuangzi

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.

Yves Klein

I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point of view and that, confronted with all these surfaces of different colours, they responded far more to the inter-relationship of the different propositions, they reconstituted the elements of a decorative polychromy.

Vladimir Putin

I'm not really saddened that [Pussy Riot] ended up in jail, though there is nothing good in that. What saddens me is that they took things to such a level, here, from my point of view, that they degraded the dignity of women.

Wilfred Owen

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing