Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

Georg Cantor

I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Georg Cantor

This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

Hugo Weaving

One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say "Well, I'm now going to have three months where I'm just going to hang out and be with the family".

Dick Cheney

My own personal view is that people ought to have the right to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. With respect to how that's affected or regulated by the State, those are State decisions. Different States are likely to make different decisions based upon their own wishes and desire of the people of the State, and that's perfectly acceptable.

A. N. Wilson

In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.

Abbas Kiarostami

I can only display what I've been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn't deserve this heritage.

Abbas Kiarostami

We don't look at each other [in the car], but instead do so only when we want to. We're allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views. Silence doesn't seem heavy or difficult.

Agatha Christie

And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.

Adrian Cronauer

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

Adam Smith

Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to society... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention

Ada Lovelace

It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and throw themselves out for actual use, views are likely to be induced, which should again react on the more theoretical phase of the subject.

Ludwig von Mises

Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

Baz Luhrmann

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

David Cameron

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

David Cameron

There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

David Lee

The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there.

David Eisenberg

Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as 'Don't ask and don't tell,' needs to be abandoned -- that is not in anyone's best interest.

David Eagleman

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

Dave Winfield

I always enjoy watching Derek Jeter play because he is a model of consistency both in the field and at the plate. I finished my career with 3,110 hits, and I have only admiration and respect for Derek. I hope he pauses to admire the view and keeps going. Just one more achievement in an incredible career.

David Mamet

It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its avatar, its prime issue, has been abortion. For, whether or not it is regarded as a woman's right, an unfortunate necessity, or murder, which is to say, irrespective of differing and legitimate political views, to enshrine it as the most important test of the Liberal, is, mythologically, an assertion to the ultimate right of a postreligious Paganism.

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.

David Mitchell

She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.

David Livingstone

It is working with clients and changing that perception. I don't mind if market commentators have that view. It's the view that clients have that matters.

Dan Eldon

The most important part of vehicle maintenance is clean windows, so if you are broken down you will enjoy the beauty of the view.

Dan Farmer

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

Danielle Dax

I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.

Daniel Nathans

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.

Cornel West

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.