Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Schmidt

Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.

Eric Schmidt

I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.

Epictetus

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

Emily Dickinson

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.

Nelson Mandela

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

Nelson Mandela

If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they can never like you. And you can never build that instrument of collective leadership.

Neill Blomkamp

My point of view actually on artificial intelligence, which ties into the nature for humans constantly looking into the reasons for why we exist and why consciousness exists changed during the making of Chappie. And I'm not actually completely sure that humans are going to be capable of giving birth to A.I. in the way that films fictionalize it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.

Nhat Hanh

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Noam Chomsky

Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history. There isn't the slightest possibility that its (in my view, horrendous) ideas would be implemented, because they would quickly destroy any society that made this colossal error. The idea of 'free contract' between the potentate and his starving subject is a sick joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar exploring the consequences of (in my view, absurd) ideas, but nowhere else.

Noam Chomsky

There is either a crisis or a return to the norm of stagnation. One view is the norm is stagnation and occasionally you get out of it. The other is that the norm is growth and occasionally you can get into stagnation. You can debate that but it's a period of close to global stagnation.

Noam Chomsky

On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not, when he was supposedly asked what he thought about western civilization. He is supposed to have said that he thought it would be a good idea. Similarly, humanitarian intervention would be a good idea, in principle.

Mike Myers

I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!

John Armstrong

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

Jodi Picoult

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

Jodi Picoult

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

John Gresham Machen

A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.

Christopher Hitchens

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

Murray Gell-Mann

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

Mo Udall

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

Mohamed ElBaradei

In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people.

Mindy McCready

I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.

Mindy Kaling

I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms.

Mike Royko

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

Kurt Russell

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

Kathleen Hanna

There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.

Karl Philipp Moritz

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

Judith Butler

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.

Pat Sajak

If any group of citizens is uniquely unqualified to tell someone else how to vote, it's those of us who live in the sheltered, privileged arena of celebrity hood......Trust me, one's view of the world isn't any clearer from the back seat of a limo.

Paul Farmer

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

Paul Farmer

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

Mary Wortley Montagu

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.