Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Barnes

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.

Kevin Peter Hall

Even when life appears to be going in circles the view is always changing if you are paying attention.

Kevin Pollak

How do you stand out? Just find your point-of-view.

Kevin Pietersen

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

Kevin O'Leary

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

Ken Thompson

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

Martin Fleischmann

I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.

Martin Filler

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

Noam Chomsky

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

Noam Chomsky

Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate[s] the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles.

Nikki Giovanni

I have not tried to tell the people anything. I have shared my views with the people but I have not tried to lead or correct them, assuming they need correction.

Nick Minchin

It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has completely corrupted public policy making in most of the developed world. It confronts all the dubious claims that the warmists have put out there.

Nick Rhodes

A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that. But some of it I've found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We've always laid everything out.

Nicholas Negroponte

Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.

Nicholas Sparks

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I’ve chosen to follow.

Neal A. Maxwell

How myopic it is to view His ministry as all crucifixion and no resurrection!

Natan Sharansky

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

Natasha Lyonne

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.

Muhammad Iqbal

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Mitchell Baker

So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet.

Mark Victor Hansen

Obstacles are only in your view when you don't have a clear enough focus on your goal.

Marguerite Duras

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

Naomi Shihab Nye

What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.

Miyamoto Musashi

With your spirit open and unconstricted, look at things from a high point of view.

Mitt Romney

With regards to my views on protecting a woman's right to choose, I've been very clear on that. I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose. And I'm devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard. I am pro-choice.

R. D. Laing

Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.

R. C. Sproul

The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.

R. C. Sproul

The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action.

Pratibha Patil

It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the public mind should be one where proceedings, debates and discussions take place with a view to resolve issues through a constructive and co-operative approach.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Don't be limited in your views with regard to your neighbor's virtue...You must enlarge your soul towards each other.

Paul R. Ehrlich

We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.

Leroy Hood

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.