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View quotes
Enlightened view (samyak darshan) is that which shows you the ‘eternal’ (the pure soul), and deluded vision (mithya darshan) is that which shows you the ‘temporary’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Or maybe I am justoutside enough, being the footstool observing from the corner, that I have a view of reality.
— Thalia Chaltas, Because I Am Furniture
Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
— Christian Morgenstern
But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.
— Nenia Campbell, Black Beast
In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note; But ’tis my heart that loves what they despise, Who in despite of view is pleased to dote
— William Shakespeare
From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Religious people… hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.
— Matthew Scully
It’s important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.
— Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
What job a fascinating view does, apart from fascinating you? It does this: It perfectly motivates you to love existence much more than you can love!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Really, weren’t these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?
— David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
The traveller’s-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
— Aldous Huxley
The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Being an outsider doesn’t necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.
— Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
— Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
— Charles Darwin
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— David Chiles
Try to pause each day and take a walk to view nature.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
Be thankful for every mountain, because it’s the mountain top that will give you best view of the world.
— Gugu Mona
Don’t let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don’t be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
— J. K. Rowling
The view wasn’t exactly breath-taking. Kind of boring actually. Unless, of course, you had a rare, strong appreciation for deserts, in which case it was downright mind blowing.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
Good food, fresh water, and an occasional sweet and someone to care for. That’s what everyone should have. A simplistic and unrealistic view I knew, but it soothed me.
— Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study
I would like to be an umpire when Sachin is batting, so to get the best possible view of his shots.
— Amit Kalantri, 5 Feet 5 Inch Run Machine – Sachin Tendulkar
In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially “grown up” and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.
— Linda Fisher Thornton
Oh, go ahead and giggle, ” Lady Danbury sighed. “I’ve found that the only way to avoid parental frustration is to view him as a source of amusement.
— Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis
I no longer looked to the future or lost hope in it. The past and the future are, from the view of the present, nothing more than a distant paradise. As one who can never achieve divinity, all I could do is ponder that with all of my might.
— Kinoko Nasu, 空の境界 未来福音 [The Garden Of Sinners/Recalled Out Summer]
If we focus our efforts on doing, we will always fall short of our real potential. We can do all the right things, but if we do not do them for the right reasons, they will never have the power to change our internal view of life.
— Rand Olson, Children of Promise: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Kids
People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
— Bob Newhart
The view from above is always beautiful. Strive to go there, but never forget to be kind.
— Debasish Mridha
if there are many choices of 3.4 billion women/men in this world (2010 statistic: 65% from overall population or 2, 2 billion are 15-64 years old women/men) , why should be narrowed with only view to the same beliefs ?
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He wrote: “A religion to be true must include everything from the amoeba to the milky way.” Nothing must be excluded from our view and purview for any faith to be true.
— Stephen Kendrick, Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes
. . . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some crisis, some fall from classical greatness, some corruption or evil to be saved from.
— Saul Bellow, Herzog
My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same depth
— Carl Henegan
It’s shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.
— Mel Martinez
In literature classes, you don’t learn about genes; in physics classes you don’t learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.
— David Christian
‘Tis distance lends enchantment to the view and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
— Thomas Campbell
Religion means researching the true Eternal thing with Deluded world view (with wrong belief) and ‘this’ (akram vignan) is a science itself.
— Dada Bhagwan
Where does the world’s zephyr strike from the view which let you to live the eternal moment of love other than in the Divine Light of sight?
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.
— Sally Quinn
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.
— Charles Darwin
The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.
— Soledad O’Brien
We view God as a resource that will broker all my cheap desires.
— Jon Hauser
If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest.
— Philip Plait, Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End…
‘Tis distance lends enchantment to the view And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
— Thomas Campbell
Who cares about fault? As my dad would say, ‘Blame is like your rear-end and reflection. Seeing either always leaves you looking back.’ I’m more worried about what’s in front of me. And right now . . . the view is all messed up.” ~ Ellia
— Jaime Reed, Keep Me In Mind
I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.
— Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants
Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us.
— Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Our first stage of existence is truly honored by the magnificent view of our destination.
— Sergio Tinoco, Proud American
When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.
— Jay Nichols
The Good Friday Agreement was an incredible breakthrough. But it’s my view that the Hillsborough Agreement could see politics in the north come of age, and see us all move forwards on the basis of equality and partnership.
— Martin McGuinness
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
— Alain de Botton
When you’ve gone through something traumatic, when you’ve faced death and loss as much as we have, it’s only natural that it changes your entire view of life.
— Claire Bidwell Smith, After This: When Life Is Over, Where Do We Go?
Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer.
— Louis L’Amour, Education of a Wandering Man
Three weeks hadn’t changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable.She was thrilled to be back.
— J.D. Robb, Rapture in Death
I truly believe that the people who have a negative view of Trump will be pleasantly surprised when he becomes the leader of our country. I also believe he will make positive changes that will benefit the people who need it most.
— Chuck Norris
Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don’t even hold it themselves.
— David J. Lieberman
Setbacks allow us to take a step back and look at the view from a whole.
— Brittany Burgunder, Safety in Numbers: From 56 to 221 Pounds, My Battle with Eating Disorders
I’ve reached that point in my journey, where there is more scenery in the rear view mirror than there is roadway ahead, I now have the time to write. I would rather hit the end of the road at full throttle than coast to a stop in the sunset.
— Dennis Randall, Becoming a Man in the Shadowlands: Surviving Rape, Abuse, and Incest
Atheism certainly promotes a low view of humanity- how much lower can you get than thinking yourself an accidental by-product of a series of even larger accidents!
— John Dickson, Humilitas: A Lost Key to Life, Love, and Leadership
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina’s view of Diego.)
— Maria Grazia Swan, Bosom Bodies
The Right’s view of government and the Left’s view of big business are both correct.
— Robert Anton Wilson
Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you’re passing. Otherwise, it’ll be too late.
— Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
— Epictetus
Having an inaccurate or incomplete view of ourselves is why are always depressed
— Sunday Adelaja
Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.
— Dave Eggers, The Circle
Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre, and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive.
— Nhat Hanh
I allowed myself a microscopic view into his ice-colored eyes. It was like viewing one of those photographs of the Arctic region – very foreign, exotic, clearly a place you’ve never dreamed of going.
— Vicki Covington, Bird of Paradise
Problem can get bigger or smaller, it all depends on how we view it individually.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.
— Crystal Eastman
Love is a great poet its resources are inexhaustible but if the end it has in view is not obtained it feels weary and remains silent.
— Giacomo Casanova
Isn’t it odd that some groups view being legally equal to other groups as ‘oppression’?
— Christina Engela, Blachart
…ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know…
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
The human interpretation of a disability is a primitive departmentalized view of ignorance.
— Alastair Agutter, The Theory of Particle Matter Frequencies and Multiple Universes
Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.
— Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
A man of wisdom always looks at every problem from the other’s point of view also. You cannot be wise if you have only one point of view. Sometimes try to stand in others’ shoes and just look from there.
— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, When the Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu
Excuse me? Do you mind if I sit next to you? This spot has the best view of…” I glanced out the window. “The… gravel roof.
— Cindi Madsen, Getting Lucky Number Seven
Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.
— Don DeLillo
When you live with a 20/20 mindset your path is straight, vision is clear, and decisions are precise. You see the bigger picture with a broader view and incorporate different angles and perspectives.
— Farshad Asl, The “No Excuses” Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The first time you view a house, you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It’s the same with men.
— Claudia Carroll, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.
— Peter Singer
Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one.
— Randy Elrod, Sex, Lies & Religion
And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind’s greatest mistakes: falling in love with a man’s potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it.
— Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
If a major source of the nation’s news is personalizing user experiences, people with different points of view will end up in echo chambers of their own design. Facebook didn’t create that problem, but it shouldn’t aggravate it.
— Cass Sunstein
The secret to success, to parenting, to life, is to not count up the cost. Don’t focus on all the steps it will take. Don’t stare into the abyss at the giant leap it will take. That view will keep you from taking the next small step.
— Regina Brett
The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.
— Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.
— Frederick Turner
But sometimes a shattered view is the only way to see truth.
— James D. Horton, Beast
If our friends’ idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends’ idealizations.
— Oscar W. Firkins
Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount importance. Live up to your highest vision of yourself no matter what the circumstances you might encounter. An exalted view of self-esteem is a man’s most admirable quality.
— Ayn Rand, The Night of January 16th
One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!
— Eli Of Kittim, The Little Book of Revelation: The First Coming of Jesus at the End of Days
The world knows caterpillar becomes butterfly but they don’t care that it also becomes a moth. One is diurnal another nocturnal.Human once awakened can change the view to change self from Angulimala to a Buddha
— Milarepa, The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance in view of the deeper tragedies in which she must play her part alone, where no human aid is possible.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Solitude of Self
Remember to view yourself and your humanness with a kind heart.
— Elizabeth Berrien, Creative Grieving: A Hip Chick’s Path from Loss to Hope
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one’s equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
— Paul Dirac
She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.
— Gwendoline Riley
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.
— Oscar Wilde
To point out nonepistemic motives in another’s view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt upon a person’s connection to the world as it is.
— Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird’s eye view and they don’t create a systematic plan.
— Dave Ramsey
The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished not by doing something but by refraining from doing. Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth.
— Aldous Huxley
I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn’t sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time–but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was “productive.” Time spend with my family and friends was never wasted.
— Gretchen Rubin, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
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 Piaget
At the core of ‘Star Trek’ is Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future.
— George Takei
The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much
— Robert Charles Wilson, Axis
It was not that Madame Santeuil’s moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.
— Marcel Proust, Jean Santeuil
Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.
— Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.
— David Blunkett
All of the answers you seek can be found in the macrocosmic view of the microcosmic You.
— Ka Chinery, Perceptions from the Photon Frequency: The Ascended Version
There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
It’s been my policy to view the Internet not as an ‘information highway’, but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
— Mike Royko
I inhale and a zephyr enters my body. The earth tilts its axis, changing my view of the heavens. Two clouds appear in the shape of trumpets. They part and rays of sunlight burst in. The sunlight speaks, ‘Seek a new experience.
— Lawren Leo, Love’s Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.
— Michelle Obama
I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
— Abigail Adams
Just when she thought she had it all figured out something happened to test her faith or alter her view of reality.
— Deanna Kahler, Echoes of Paradise
Mine is the only view that appropriately combines the end-time messianic expectations of the Jews with Christian scripture.
— Eli Of Kittim, The Little Book of Revelation: The First Coming of Jesus at the End of Days
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
— Hippocrates
Though we may choose to view them symbolically, dreams are actually no more or less symbolic than everyday waking reality. When the images and events don’t conform to our view of reality, we call them symbols. When they do, we call them facts.
— Eric Micha’el Leventhal
There’s a difference between being a comic and a comedian. A comic is a guy who says funny things, and a comedian is a guy who says things funny, and he has a style and point of view that will last much longer.
— Milton Berle
I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.
— E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
I view art as an inspirational tool.
— Thomas Kincade
Appeal. Guy’s like you get all excited about the appeal. Don’t you see that I view the very existence of an appeal as a disastrous failure? No much worse, a personal affront of the highest order for which I blame you.
— Sergio de la Pava, A Naked Singularity
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
CIOs, more than any other executive, have an end-to-end view of how the business works and the tools to turn that view into insights. CIOs can see endless opportunities for improvement and change.
— Martha Heller, Be the Business: CIOs in the New Eras of IT
A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated—as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought and action in a rational view of man.
— Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto
Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.
— John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.
— Beryl Markham, West with the Night
If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wilderness, view nature not as your adversary, but as your companion.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Dare to challenge your current view of your world.
— Nityananda Das, Divine Union
…you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you’ve changed the view from my window!…
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure
— Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility… The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.
— Howard Schultz
You can’t see the world from somebody else’s point of view and not be changed.
— Lena Coakley, Witchlanders
If it is necessary for us to do anything [in view of peace], direct us and architect.πρὸς τάδ’ ἡμῖν, εἴ τι χρὴ δρᾶν, φράζε κἀρχιτεκτόνει.
— Aristophanes, Peace
My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It’s a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.
— Dennis Kucinich
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
— Arnold Bennett
When you are in action it is very difficult to get a bird’s eye view of your own performance! Find some time to introspect.
— Harrish Sairaman
The view from the mountaintop is reserved for the uncommon man.
— Sherman Morris
You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.
— V.T. Davy, Black Art
[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is – absurd.
— Richard Feynman
The Protestant teachings caused people to view their work as a way of proving their love to God so they tried to do their best and give the best quality to God by giving the best quality to man.
— Sunday Adelaja
What we want to do in this moment is rarely what’s best for us. We need to take a longer view of life and to realize that to become someone worth becoming, I probably need to be doing things I don’t want to be doing.
— Vince Antonucci, Guerrilla Lovers: Changing the World with Revolutionary Compassion
To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.
— Aung San Suu Kyi, Letters from Burma
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture?
— David Bohm
From the point of view of the playwright then the essence of a tragedy or even of a serious play is the spiritual awakening or regeneration of his hero.
— Maxwell Anderson
Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
Once people see you cry, it’s like they own part of you. It’s like you ripped a hole in yourself, and they saw through whatever armor you had on, got a good long view of all the screaming alien goop underneath.
— Stefan Bachmann, A Drop of Night
It is incorrect to assume that you cannot find any good in the point of view directly opposite yours.
— Daniel Willey
Not that she’s a political animal, she’s just an ordinary woman, but as a woman she’s of the view that you don’t bring children into the world to have them shot.
— Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone
When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos
I want to make people smile. I want to tell an epic story… with laughter. I want to change the way people view the world. I want life to stop being so damn dramatic all the time. I want… what are you doing?
— Cassie Mae, Doing It for Love
Family therapists view the therapeutic relationship as a means to an end rather than as an end in itself. Family therapists see beyond the problematic patterns in the family to the potential healing power of family relationships.
— Joseph A. Micucci, The Adolescent in Family Therapy: Harnessing the Power of Relationships
Moving man’s view of himself and life past common thinking, the true visionary faces great difficulty: exactly that deluded mindset the sage would have listeners outgrow is the very filter through which any new perspective must pass.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, The Illusion of “Truth”: The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth
Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.
— Charles W. Colson
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
— Ezra Pound
To see more than a reflection requires us to filter what we see, to view the world with honest eyes.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp – Fennel’s Journal – No. 4
It’s brainless to assume that making changes to your window’s view will give a new perspective
— Death Cab for Cutie
Adopt your own view and adapt with others’ views
— Mohammed Sekouty
They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country.
— Tom Tancredo
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
— Beau Willimon
Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
— Brooks Atkinson
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
— Miyamoto Musashi
. . . crazy world or maybe it’s just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.
— Judith Guest, Ordinary People
Life as a mountain – so rugged and hard to climb definitely, But once you get to the top the view is beautiful indisputably.[225] – 4 (Thoughts)
— Munindra Misra, Eddies of Life
From the intellectual point of view an abyss may exist between a great mathematician and his boot maker, but from the point of view of character the difference is most often slight or non-existent
— Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
Any point of view reflects some side of truth and must not claim that it is complete
— Anatoliy Obraztsov, A Crossing or the Drop`s History
We must seek to keep a right view of Jesus and to remember He is always after greater love.
— Dana Candler, Deep Unto Deep: The Journey of His Embrace
Like the very quantum particles we study, we must be comfortable allowing our view of the world to exist in superposition.
— Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.
— Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender
Don’t let the evil actions of broken people define your view of our world! Don’t be terrorized into a diluted, hopeless reality.
— Steve Maraboli
Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling – Fennel’s Journal – No. 6
If one just intellectually understands the view it will not help! One must actually experience it! There are many people who understand the view but don’t experience it. If the view were experienced, they wouldn’t act the way they do!
— Padampa Sangye
To live is to evolve our point of view about the world and what we have decided to do with it.
— 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão
Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.
— Luke Ford
When you by nature subscribe to the view that everyone except yourself is a berk or a wanker, it is hard to bond with anybody in any rational common cause.
— Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
— Matthew Broderick
Being optimistic is the view looking for the best, it comes with the “never give up” attitude.
— Pearl Zhu, 100 Creativity Ingredients: Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity
…you’ve lost perspective? Well, get it back – God alone has the third person point of view in this life …
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
To be successfully independent, you must view life as if all of your love ones are dead and the world is against you.
— John Yang aka Private83
Stories are epically important to how we view and interact in the world around us. We define ourselves, our abilities and even our goals by the stories we believe and share. These stories become part of our personal view of our world.
— Lyssa Danehy deHart
Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice.
— Louis B. Saloman
Your outer world mirrors your inner world. How you view your outer world is how you view you, your inner world, the ‘you’ that needs your care, your attention, your compassion and your love.
— Kelly Martin, When Everyone Shines But You – Saying Goodbye To I’m Not Good Enough
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
— Salman Rushdie
The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
— Story Musgrave
What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Enlightenment was not just Gautama Buddha’s, but you too, individually, must find this new perspective of life, this new point of view in your life and in all things.” –
— Gyomay M Kubose
If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?
— Kathryn Davis
Life’s a climb. But the view is great.
— Miley Cyrus
Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat.
— A.D. Posey
If you must make your time productive, then begin to view time in its most urgent form; in seconds and in minutes.
— Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.
— Alan W. Watts
Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step into another land and view its indigenous practices and beliefs through a local lens, instead of a telescope.
— Nadia Hashimi
Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.
— David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
The view of Earth is spectacular.
— Sally Ride
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.
— Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
Live it already, write about it from the point of view of already having it, and be so happy and grateful at its impending arrival.
— Stephen Richards, How to Get Everything You Can Imagine: Volume 1: How Mind Power Works
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
— Bob Geldof
How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?
— Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed…
— Sharon Kay Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept
If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.
— Robert Ferrigno, Sins of the Assassin
If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will become blurred, awkward, and ugly. Your sense of inner beauty has to remain a very private thing.
— John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
…when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.
— Richard Dawkins
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
— Richard M. Nixon
Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist.
— Carl Henegan
They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures.
— Henry David Thoreau, Collected Essays and Poems
If you want to have an impact in your company, have a point of view that sometimes challenges the status quo but do the work required to make the point of view an informed one.
— Martha Heller, Be the Business: CIOs in the New Eras of IT
What we view as God’s absence or lack of quickness to change our circumstances or fix our problems is really God waiting for the proper time to act on our behalf, while simultaneously waiting for us to acknowledge our need for rescue.
— Tracie Miles, Stressed-Less Living: Finding God’s Peace in Your Chaotic World
Love is the biggest mystery of the universe. But why try to solve it, when one simply view it for what it is and marvel at the wonders and strangeness it brings?
— Arnold Arre, After Eden
I am personally optimistic. I share the widespread view that we are entering a new epoch during which we can achieve conscious evolution and the elevation of humanity to a constructive steward of the Earth.
— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust
Culture is a virus. It distorts your view of the world and destroys your capacity to think independently.
— Merlyn Gabriel Miller, Sex, Death, Drugs & Madness
If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
When we expand our thinking, we expand who we are as human beings: the perspective from which we view the world, and the concepts and values we use to guide our choices.
— John Chaffee, The Thinker’s Way
There’s a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are ‘legal relativists.’ They tend to view legal principles as relative to whatever they’re trying to achieve.
— Jonathan Turley
Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.
— Edgar H. Schein, Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
Christians today who view the Bible as God’s unadulterated and inerrant word are rightly labeled fundamentalists, while Muslims who think the same of the Qur’an are simply considered Muslims.
— Hamed Abdel-Samad, Der islamische Faschismus: Eine Analyse
All life’s training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don’t grudge me the learning of a new lesson.
— Amy Carmichael
The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a ‘dualistic’ view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.
— Gyalwa Dokhampa, The Restful Mind
It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we’re providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.
— J. Craig Venter
We are living in an increasingly feminized society. Some people view that as an increasingly civilized society, but it has left our boys with deep desires for honor but few outlets for displaying it appropriately.
— Cindy Rollins, Mere Motherhood: Morning times, nursery rhymes, and my journey toward sanctification
For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn’t fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.
— Tom Stoppard
My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.
— Biz Stone
The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.
— Morley Safer
Social media inflames our already inflated view of self.
— Mandy J. Hoffman
In constant view keeps mightily true an honest resolve to do.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Its not the eyes, that makes the visualization of the external world possible, but its the perception out of the awareness field. Your eyes are the same, but you view two person differently.
— Roshan Sharma
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
— Dalai Lama
Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
— Dan Glickman
Never limit your view of life by any past experience.
— Ernest Holmes
I should explain — in view of my last letter, you may find it slightly surprising — that Daphne and I are now bosom friends. That is to say, she seems to think we are; and I do not feel that I know her well enough to dispute it.
— Sarah Caudwell, The Sibyl in Her Grave
The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn’t own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like real estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities.
— Marc Faber
It was always the view of my parents, ” Emily said, “that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
— Ian McEwan, Atonement
The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don’t understand.
— Thomas R. Cech
If we as people view everone who’s not a part of our group as the monster, and we treat them like the monster – they either become the monster, or we’re actually the monster.
— Philip DeFranco
Don’t be intimidated by people who seem to be experts. Hear their points of view and get their judgements. But at the end of day, you’ve got to make a judgement because it’s not their life that’s going to be affected so much as your future.
— Robert Dallek
One of the things your unconscious mind does for you – and it’s a great gift – is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.
— Leonard Mlodinow
I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in ‘Modern Family’ is very flattering, and I’m appreciative of that.
— Steven Levitan
Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person’s good.
— John Paul II, Love and Responsibility
There is evil! It’s actual, like cement.I can’t believe it. I can’t stand it.Evil is not a view … it’s an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.
— Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who have pretended to be villains so well that they believe it themselves. This is how I like to view reality.
— Kenneth Everett
It’s my view that human dignity – an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics – resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.
— Maurice Saatchi
The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.
— Denise Shekerjian
Average people have a world view that says being comfortable with who and where they are in life is the key to happiness. The great ones have a world view that says happiness is learning, growing and becoming.
— Steve Siebold
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.
— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The higher you soar the view is much better, and the giant in you appears. Go forth and conquer your dreams.
— Ocean R Stark
You only have to view life in a positive way.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
What had he said about machines?”Block was not entirely sure about that. Something about their eventually being able to think, something which the woman said was at odds with the Christian view of things, just like his sexual inclinations.
— David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow
Oh, I didn’t think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again, ” I say, cheerily. “It’s sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it.
— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
Maligned –powerfully-drawn characters acting out a disturbing view of our future.” -David Compton, New York Times Best-Selling author
— Kathleen Papajohn
We lost our country somewhere along the way. We know where we lost it but we do not appear to have the strength to eliminate those blocking our view to enable us to develop our common identity.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
She isn’t acting hurt, she is acting angry, ” Jared said, feeling frustrated himself.“I know, Jared, I know. Right now, she has a distorted view of herself and the world. The only way to effectively combat a lie is with the truth.
— Sarah Holman, Distorted Glass: A Snow Queen Story
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
— Dalai Lama
If you view yourself as having a value-conferring status in virtue of of your power of rational choice, you must view anyone who has the power of rational choice as having…a value conferring status.
— Christine M. Korsgaard, Creating the Kingdom of Ends
My world view is somewhat unique. I have learned from many great philosophers including Plato, Socrates, Buddha, Jesus, Darwin, Tagore, Emerson, and many more.
— Debasish Mridha
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.
— Muhammad Iqbal
I now view life as a complex and unpredictable affair that cannot be mastered. It can be embraced. It can be negotiated more or less skillfully. But mastered? Not a chance.
— Gary Hayden
As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these atrocities as ‘progress’, and assert with pride and conviction that they are ‘Christians’ and that they are doing ‘God’s will’.
— Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency
I actually don’t have a view on whether someone watching certain material that may be legal in some places, but might be obscene to somebody else, can trigger a violent streak in someone.
— Killi Krupa Rani
A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide.
— Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
Capitalism has a way of letting people view the world through rose-coloured glasses.
— Rebecca McNutt, Hello, My Name is Grief: A Short Story About 9/11
…I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom – it gave me a good view of things. And I must confess, the location taught me more about human nature and justice than could be learned from the professors’ lectures.
— Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.
— John Bright
When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or not, send them love. They are to be acknowledged for speaking their truth.
— Barbara Marciniak, Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living
I can tell you how to get what you want: You’ve just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.
— William J. Lock
The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.
— John Dolan, Everyone Burns
Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.
— John W. Snow
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.
— Oliver Goldsmith
When you read a book and its words agree with what you think, your view of the world or your feelings at the time, you discover that there are people out there that think like you. That takes away a feeling of loneliness.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
— Alan Alda
The hearts of everyone, the feeling is different Everyone in this world, the behavior is different The eyes are all the same.. But everyone’s view is different.
— Sachin sawariya
Take a step back and view the world through your eyes, not someone else’s. Listen to your heart and decide what you really want.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life – Fennel’s Journal – No. 1
Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this ‘reality’ as you view your dreams.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
— Albert Einstein
Anxious systems also fail to get a clear view of things. Embedded in their dread, they lose a sense of proportion. They have little awareness of what is happening and how it is being mutually maintained. Emotionally cramps the broader view.
— Peter L. Steinke, How Your Church Family Works: Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems
I can’t imagine why a media company views a law preventing the commission of hate speech as a restriction on media freedom, but it is probably similar to how some religious folk view hate speech as being essential to religious freedom.
— Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency
They view New York as Satan’s waiting room.” “If this is the waiting room, where does the guy reside or work?” “New Jersey, I assume, ” Kyle said with a smile. “I mean, dude, have you been to Jersey?
— Michael Murphy, Little Squirrels Can Climb Tall Trees
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
— Sam Houston
While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They’re peculiar that way.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
The person who said that it is lonely at top has no idea what the view looks like from above. ~ Aarush Kashyap
— Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan
Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.
— Stanley Kubrick
I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he’s brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people.
— Mitch Kapor
How you see the world may not be how others view it.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Sometimes I think teachers like Ms. Harmer view creativity as something dirty and slightly embarrassing, and would prefer to turn kids into people who color inside the lines.Generally speaking, I don’t care much for lines.
— Jenny Lundquist, The Charming Life of Izzy Malone
Success from the financial and from the prestige point of view . . . is not enough; what matters even more is . . . adherence to high moral and aesthetic standards.” — as quoted in “High Financier” by Niall Ferguson
— Siegmund Warburg
The journey isn’t the vista at the end, it’s the ever changing view along the way.
— Toni Sorenson
Never allow your reality to be influenced by another’s listless view of you.
— Julieanne O’Conner
I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.
— Moon Unit Zappa
This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.
— Denis de Rougemont, Love in the Western World
Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.
— Sarah Polley
When we view ourselves through the lens of God’s Word, we better understand God’s love for us and the worth we have in His eyes.
— Elizabeth George, Loving God with All Your Mind
Don’t we teach our women to view all men according to the actions of a few?
— Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
— Flannery O’Connor
Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: ‘What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In shamanism it is not the jaguar or the crow that has meaning, it is what follows from whatever you view as an energetic transfer.
— Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
— P. Chidambaram
While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as a blessing and gift from God.
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
— Ronald Reagan
The student asks: If my redstone necklace had every view of every veil that ever brightened, would I be wise? The master answers: If I had a thousand pieces of a priceless vase, would I be rich?
— Kay Kenyon, City Without End
Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon one’s view of them.
— John Connolly, A Song of Shadows
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
— George Macdonald
A majority opinion does not represent the ultimate decision because such a view is not unanimous and lacks general will.
— Duop Chak Wuol
I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.
— Steve Jobs
Conventional wisdom in Galbraith’s view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting – though not necessarily true.
— Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
— Laurence Sterne
Change can only work in two ways – for the better, or for the worst. Yet, regardless of whatever manner in which change comes into our lives, what matters is how we view it and how we react to it.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me
— Laurie Anderson
The city of San Francisco engulfed their view through the front windshield. The dazzling light of the late morning sun transformed every glass and metal surface into a silvery mirage.
— Victoria Kahler, Luisa Across the Bay
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.
— Oswald Chambers
Radical optimism is a wide screen view of the moment nay the inconceivable, as you please.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Abnormal – nonsense. Suggests a norm, which is a tag placed on those who don’t conform to an elite’s view of itself.
— Anthony North
A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective.
— Laurie Nadel, Dancing with the Wind: A True Story of Zen in the Art of Windsurfing
The purpose of any charity is simply to turn people’s mirrors into windows. An outward view of the world’s needs are vast in comparison to an inward one.
— Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It’s Too Late
One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irritably into the middle of the flames, which made Thor feel slightly better and made all the dwarfs feel much worse.
— Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say theway God sees events from above?
— Gustave Flaubert
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
— Henry David Thoreau
Gavin tried not to stare at the lobster. He decided not to inquire further. Whatever Jack’s reasoning, best to accept that crustaceans were necessary to his view of the world.
— Gail Carriger, Poison or Protect
Only when it is seen that what decides each individual’s destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.
— J.I. Packer, Knowing God
It’s not a bad lesson to learn in the bleaker months: how you view a storm is a question of perspective; provided you find the right rock to watch it from, it could be the most incredible thing you’ll ever witness.
— Dan Stevens
My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.
— Pauline Hanson
The refusal to take part in all war under any conditions is an unworldly view bound to remain a sectarian doctrine. It no more challenges the state’s authority than the celibacy of priests challenges the sanctity of marriage.
— John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
As we read, ponder, and pray, there will come into our minds a view of the three gardens of God—the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden of the Empty Tomb where Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene.
— Bruce R. McConkie
Thought: everyone had their own thought, but those who writes had their own view and people make several views on that one view. Its not fair, he who thinks only can describe what the reality is not by others.
— Nutan Bajracharya
th. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.
— Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
I think what’s really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
— Shigeru Miyamoto
I view magic as simply the realization of unrecognized potential.
— Daniel Thompson, The Great Apocalypse
At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.
— Jim Walton
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
— Joel Salatin, Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
Customers are human and humans can view situations in unexpected ways.
— Marilyn Suttle
The real Likud knows how to make peace, to give up territory, and on the other hand is conservative and responsible. My world view is that of the real Likud that truly came and safeguarded the Land of Israel.
— Moshe Kahlon
Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you – that’s how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.
— Nick Jonas
Living in another culture, not just visiting it, has reshaped our view of the world.
— Nancy Petralia, Not in a Tuscan Villa: During a Year in Italy, a New Jersey Couple Discovers the True Dolce Vita When They Trade Rose-colored Glasses for 3Ds
My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.
— Lauren Willig
Turnstall’s view of what men could and couldn’t do was sometimes odd. Our old parter Goodwin and I agreed that there was no manly or unwomanly, only what you chose to do.
— Tamora Pierce (Author), Mastiff
A moment can change the way you view the world, and the way you view the world will give you more moments.
— Nikki Rowe
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling…
— V.S. Naipaul, Magic Seeds
Just like life, reality shifted and twisted out of her grasp [Elena’s view on Gran Sasso]
— Kirsten Arcadio, Split Symmetry
How can any person with a myopic view and harbouring intense parochial attitude even think of leading the nation?
— Sharad Pawar
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
— Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
— Robert Bork
It should be noted that the EPA’s banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.
— Robert Zubrin
As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, “atheism” is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a “non-astrologer” or a “non-alchemist.
— Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.
— Mayank Sharma, A Cocktail of Love
Now that Olive was grown, I didn’t know what to do with myself. You could build your life around one single thing, like a view or a child, but that was risky. You had so much to lose.
— Michael Lee West, She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana
Ask God to give you the fifty-year view of your hurt.
— Will Davis Jr., 10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses …
— Farkas Bolyai
Challenges in the rear view appear smaller than they are.. But keep your spirits higher than the Challenges are.
— Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar
If politics left out the manipulation of money, I would perhaps view it more than a partisan traffic jam that never ends.
— Zephyr McIntyre
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.
— Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
— Eleanor Catton
I’ve been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I’ve been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
— Ann Druyan
For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people’s revolution with but one aim in view – the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.
— Sun Yat-sen
You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It’s a vicious cycle.
— Pat Conroy
Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can’t cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?
— Mark Twain
Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?
— Vincent H. O’Neil, Death Troupe
It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.’ Stein on Writing
— Sol Stein
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
— Epictetus
That’s the difference between them and us. ‘Them’ view foxes as vermin, and ‘us’ identify with the fox.
— Luggs, Consort : The Prince and the Pauper
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
— Joyce Brothers
We want to make certain that we view culture through the eyes of faith, that we don’t view our faith through the eyes of culture.
— Stephen D. Livesday
Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.
— Anthony Liccione
The highest view of the Scriptures is not the one that seeks to make an idol of the Bible (biblicism), but the one that allows the biblical text to exalt Christ as the living Word over all creation. The Word became flesh, not ink.
— David D. Flowers
What’s amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.
— Hugh Hefner
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
— Alan Greenspan
I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.
— D.W. Griffith
We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
— Mary Garden
The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
— Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.
— Matt Chandler
My view is that, if you think that money brings problems, you have a problem with money. The money itself is innocent.
— Derric Yuh Ndim
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
— Epictetus
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man’s first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
— Stephen Gardiner
Even from the point of view of coquetry, pure and simple, ” he had told her, “can’t you see how much of your attraction you throw away when you stoop to lying?
— Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
The best space movie in my view is ‘Apollo 13.’ That’s just the way it happened.
— John Glenn
We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.
— Matt Haig
The breathtaking view at the mountaintop is compensation for all of the breath lost whilst sweating towards it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
— Hideki Tojo
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
— E.B. White, The Points Of My Compass
If your attitude affect’s your point of view, and your point of view affects your emotions, and your emotions reinforce your attitude, then why not choose a positive attitude?
— Mica Williams
I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.
— Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story
The Sun can be your greatest gloom, or your greatest comforter, depending on how you view its shine.
— Anthony Liccione
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.
— David Byrne
The importance of Man, which is the one indispensable dogma of the theologians, receives no support from a scientific view of the future of the solar system.
— Bertrand Russell, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity
Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.
— Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
— T. E. Hulme
Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.
— The Independent
When he saw the vista of the street reflected in the mirror in which he was looking, he was terror stricken. He had the impression that the whole view had turned into eyes that reproached him.
— Kōbō Abe, The Box Man
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.
— Cyrus the Great
We must each ascertain our own way to quantify the world. We can choose to peer at life harshly or benevolently. The prism that we select to view the world ultimately is the same standard that we employ to judge ourselves.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
— George Soros
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write symphonies..
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
As believers, everything we do is based on how we view God.
— Hayley DiMarco, Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do For Love And How To Avoid Them
My opinion is a view I hold until… well until I find something that changes it.
— Luigi Pirandello
Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.
— Orhan Pamuk, The Innocence of Objects
So it’s not all that important who people really are. Honestly, you could end up spending your life with almost anyone, and it wouldn’t matter who – because the person they are to you is totally dependent on your view of them.
— Steph Bowe, Girl Saves Boy
It’s not how I view being a salesman. It’s how I live being a salesman.
— Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman’s Club
We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can live our life with the taint of aftermath or look forward to embracing each beguiling day with renewed energy and enthusiasm.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel’s view of life is Sir Noel. Mead’s mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller’s. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants.
— John Cage, M: Writings ’67-’72
Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality…Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.
— Gary Zukav
Women tend to communicate early and often about a problem. Men are more likely to view communication as a tool, and when they see it as the wrong tool for the job, they believe it should be stored neatly in the toolbox.
— Shawn T. Smith, The Woman’s Guide to How Men Think: Love, Commitment, and the Male Mind
He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.
— Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.
— Nick Clooney
It’s not that I don’t suffer, it’s that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one’s soul and as a permanent scar across one’s view of existence.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
— Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals
You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.
— John T. Chambers
Your unwillingness to change to my view point is purely on the justifiable basis that you have your own strongly held beliefs about important life issues.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
I tend to view synchronicities as proof that I am on the right path. It’s like a pat on the back from God.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.
— Marie Curie
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
— Konrad Adenauer
Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Simply put, the relative age of a philosophical perspective has nothing to do with its veracity. It is pure illusion to imagine that just because a view of life was held and put to words long ago, that it is more valid.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer, Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.
— John Polkinghorne
If we possess narrative sympathy – enabling us to see the world from other’s point of view – we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.
— Richard Kearney, On Stories
Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.
— Archibald Marwizi, Making Success Deliberate
The gates of hell are open night and day;Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies.
— Virgil, The Aeneid
Our relatedness with other living forms provides us something we sorely need: a reverence for the life of all creatures great and small, and an expanded view of our place in nature–not as rulers over it, but as participants in it.
— Larry Dossey, Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Approach
My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.
— Michael J. Fox
A knowledge with no clear idea of Evil as universe and principle, a knowledge that pays no mind to the evil that man is and was and for which he is forced to atone, is knowledge with a view to Evil, in favor of Evil, and probably suggested by Evil.
— Ceronetti
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I admit my view of the world is colored by my legal and business experiences at Liberty.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
— Ridley Scott
When will women not be compelledto view their bodies as science projects, gardens to be weeded, dogs to be trained?When will a woman ceaseto be made of pain?
— Marge Piercy, What Are Big Girls Made Of?: Poems
I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.
— Sophia Rose, Liquid Me: Poetry and Prose
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
— Abraham Lincoln
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
— Dr. Joyce Brothers
We stood as the ground shifted and we saw the view from belowthrough tiled floors and concrete stairs, our feet burning holes in the foundation while you whispered of dreams.
— Marie Anzalone, Peregrintaing North-South Compass Points: Poems in English and Spanish
You know you are truly alive, when you care for every living thing. One day soon, it will be the norm to view others not as competition, but gifts to share this gorgeous planet with, and we will not be able to imagine the loss of but one.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
You can’t see other’s point of view when you have only one language.
— Frank Smith
I don’t view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.
— Kurt Busiek
There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.
— Melissa Etheridge
The proper conceptual view is attained only through introspection.
— Akshay Vijayan
If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
It’s not where you are from (basically it’s not based upon tradition) that determines who you are. But, it’s really based upon your personality on how people will view and treat you.
— Temitope Owosela
No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try.
— Debra Driza, MILA 2.0
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
— Émile Zola
He evidently did not care that they were in full view of a cluster of dog-owners walking their dogs. He stopped and took her in his arms, kissing her passionately and urgently.
— Alexander McCall Smith, A Distant View of Everything
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.
— John Armstrong, Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy
When you view yourself through the lens of God’s Word, you will better understand God’s love for you and the worth you have in His eyes.
— Elizabeth George
It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.
— Anthony Marais, Delusionism
Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.
— Karyn Parsons
Most people ignore what’s right before their eyes. They believe they see, but oftentimes only view what they want.
— Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper
It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.
— Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
The eyes of such a nation (living godly) shall view a land that stretches afar. Talking about global influence, authority, dignity and respect.
— Sunday Adelaja
Somewhere along the way people became afraid to be single. To be unmarried, separate from others and lost their individuality searching for it in society’s view of relationships.
— Sanjo Jendayi, I Now Pronounce You Single & Happy
He never asked me what I thought, and I never told him what I thought, because in my view that’s the way a journalist ought to behave. You ought not to be going around to people volunteering your feelings. That’s daily journalism.
— Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer
It takes a warrior’s courage to acknowledge that your point of view matters, that your truth matters, that your gifts matter, and that your presence on this earth matters. You don’t have to earn this right; it’s yours as part of your birthright.
— Debbie Ford, Courage: Overcoming Fear and Igniting Self-Confidence
Too many of us view liberty as something that ‘just is, ’ and too few see it as something that ‘is’ only because someone, somewhere was faced with the formidable reality that to keep liberty meant paying a stiff price.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.
— Milan Kundera, Encounter
My parents never projected their dreams onto me. If they hoped I would be a great pitcher, or political figure, or artist (no chance), they never told me about it. Their view of parenting was to offer love and encourage me to chart my own path.
— George W. Bush, Decision Points
Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love’s kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.
— George MacDonald
Your view on the world is validated and verified daily. How is your view on the world working for you?
— Tony Curl
The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it’s my point of view.
— Steve Goodier
You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.Humans don’t like that.They view it as a sign of ingratitude.I never asked anyone to feed me.That doesn’t seem to matter to them.
— Patrick Jennings, We Can’t All Be Rattlesnakes
Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested “in how they feel and in their point of view.
— Haim G. Ginott, Between Parent and Child: The Bestselling Classic That Revolutionized Parent-Child Communication
Yes, but humans are more important than animals, ‘ said Brutha.’This is a point of view often expressed by humans, ‘ said Om.
— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Don’t climb a mountain to look down on people below, but to get a clearer view of the stars above.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing away lenses.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.
— Kapil Sibal
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.
— Martin Filler
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
— Abraham Lincoln
Many today view love and doctrine as enemies, or at best as rivals.
— Bobby Jamieson, Sound Doctrine: How a Church Grows in the Love and Holiness of God
I’ have not had to borrow or beg for years. This world is indeed all yours. If you know how to ‘see’, if you know how to view the world, if you know how to understand the world, then the world is truly all yours. You are truly the Owner.
— Dada Bhagwan
Choose to view life through God’s eyes.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Growing up in a household where something is terribly wrong, you feel the weight of that mysterious something even though it’s unspoken. It eats at you. Confuses you. It leaves you wondering if your view of the world will ever make sense.
— Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister
I don’t plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don’t want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.
— Ivanka Trump
On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
— Camryn Manheim
Students view any teacher who does not bury them under work as some sort of mentally impaired kitten to be kicked aside.
— Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities
— Molière, The Misanthrope
If you want to find inspiration Dare to fall, because the view down there is deep.
— Vanessa
Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.
— Frederik L. Schodt, Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.
— Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it’s easy to repeat established patterns and, out of habit, reenact old stories that limit our ability to live and love ourselves with an open heart.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
you can tell a lot about a person how they view sex….
— Turcois Ominek
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
— Marquis de Sade
Critical to the fight against global terrorism is an ability to move beyond presuppositions and stereotypes in our attitudes and policies and to form partnerships that transcend an “us” and “them” view of the world. (p. 135)
— John L. Esposito
As my future crumbled before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. My entire life’s struggle was ending here, in plain view of my enemies. How was it possible? Had had I let things come to this?
— Tony McMahon, No Place to Hide: How I Put the Black in the Union Jack
From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.
— George Orwell, 1984
But that’s the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must’ve know I’d become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of ones clothes in a community of blind men.
— Joseph Conrad
At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
— E.J. Dionne Jr., Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right
Leadership view is multidimensional with the full spectrum of colors.
— Pearl Zhu, Leadership Master: Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity
It will be interesting to have chance to view and the places from rich and poor to see what happens… if somebody knows the chance to do it it’s smaller than before.
— Deyth Banger
Don’t go downhill just because it’s easy. The view is only visible from the top.
— Destiny Booze
The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.
— Ronald Reagan
It is important to view current events through Christ-like eyes.
— Todd Stocker, Refined: Turning Pain Into Purpose
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
— Lord Byron
A gloomy view of things is at least one misfortune you can avoid.
— Marty Rubin
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
— John Ashbery
One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
The glory of victory softens our view of past frailties.
— Marian Deegan, Relevance: Matter More
It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around…
— Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
Nixon wanted view and advice brought to him through intermediaries. He wanted information filtered as it came to him – and he wanted his filters to filter his will back to those whom he must direct.
— David Pietrusza, 1960–LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
What do you think of the old boy?” said Jean.”He’s got a strangely sunny view of ten years of defeat”, said Locke, “but if I get killed in the next six weeks, I want him to speak at my funeral.
— Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
— Henry Ford
Humanity could be clutching the frail barque of an outmoded world view while the wind of the mind is swaying the stars into very real craft, and out of them is coming… a faint call for help from a lady in a flowered dress.
— Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story
When people view their lives as insignificant, they escape using pleasure.
— Moxie Will
Point of view.” I never got that phrase, point of view; doesn’t everyone have a point in their view? If not thenthey don’t have a view on a certain topic they are just indifferent. Anyone who has a view certainly cares enough to have apoint!
— CV
Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.
— Shawn Achor
The kind of value system prevailing in a country determines the country’s reaction and view on corruption.
— Sunday Adelaja
I have found in my travels that those who keep heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. Forward-looking Christians remain optimistic and joyful, knowing that Christ someday will rule.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Anyone called upon to view misery will view criminality differently. All state officials should be required to spend a month serving in a homeless shelter to learn love.
— Joseph Roth
Are you too frightened to go any farther?” asked the silk-monkey, who found all this very easy, having four legs herself.”I’m never afraid, ” answered Sniff. “But I think the view is better from here.
— Tove Jansson, Comet in Moominland
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.
— Eric Schmidt
Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Either way, the view stabbed its way into his chest, as if it were trying to finish him off before he even landed.
— Seré Prince Halverson, All the Winters After
Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.
— Eric Kandel
At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there should be no distraction.– Michelle Obama
— Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words
Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella’s perceptive view of herself]
— Maria Grazia Swan, Death Under the Venice Moon
The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I view real estate as the most intriguing opportunity that I’ve seen in my business lifetime.
— Richard Rainwater
Similar to theory of relativity, view towards life changes with passage of time!
— Malik Pommy
The synoptic Gospels of the New Testament manuscripts make us aware of Christ’s character and gives us a view of the ‘son-ship’ He modeled which flowed out of that Divine character.” ~R. Alan Woods [2013]
— R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
It’s human nature to view life from our own reality.This causes serious problems when a rescue mission is being led by the senile or insane.
— Jaime Buckley, The Truth About Lies
The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.
— Robyn Davidson
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one’s own view of the nature of one’s relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
— Paul Watzlawick
The Protestants teachings affected the view of the populace to work
— Sunday Adelaja
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
— Brooks Atkinson
We change with time by how we view the future and reflect the past
— Ronnie Cornelisz
Those who think of their house as only a ‘machine to live in’ should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology.
— Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Rethink Your Mindset because…The view your brain builds and automatically adopts…of yourself, profoundly affects the way you think, feel and act-moment to moment, and the results you create.
— Tony Dovale
Memorizing the writer’s handbook doesn’t make you a writer. It makes you a specialist, and it puts you to a class with people who were given the same training. You all share the same view from the same room.
— Keith Buckley, Scale: A Novel
If someone tells you you’re not beautiful, turn around and walk away so they canhave a great view of your fabulous ass.
— Miley Cyrus
I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can’t be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.
— Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
To rule out the possibility of belief in another’s reality is to encapsulate that reality and, thus, to impose implicity the hegemony of one’s own view of the world.
— Katherine P. Ewing
Be thankful for every mountain, because it’s the mountaintop that will give you best view of the world.
— Gift Gugu Mona
The person who says it is lonely at the top has no idea what the view looks like from above. ~ Aarush Kashyap
— Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan
There’s no way to approach anything in an objective way. We’re completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.
— Charlie Kaufman
I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.
— Steve Israel
It sounds to me, dear, as if your satirist is a bit like a monk. They both take a rather dim view of the world, and both try to do something abou
— Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
I can see by your face that I’ll never persuade you. And that’s surprising, because usually you at least try to see my side.”I can see your side, ” said Cecily. “I’ve got a much clearer view of it than you do, from over here on my side.
— Orson Scott Card
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
Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56
— Ray A., Practice These Principles: Living the Spiritual Disciplines and Virtues in 12-Step Recovery to Achieve Spiritual Growth, Character Development, and Emotional Sobriety
As we travel great lengths in this world away from home, most of us come back with a clearer view on what home means. And most likely it isn’t so much about the place in itself, but more about the places and people that have made us feel AT home…
— lauren klarfeld
Gossip is the swiftest bird alive, ” Amonos said darkly.”Yes, ” said E’sinea, turning to view his surroundings. “I should like one day to catch Gossip and wring its neck.
— E.M. Markoff, The Deadbringer
I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one’s shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.
— Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
Life is so complete that even when we are knocked on our backs, we have the best view of the stars.
— Laura Teresa Marquez
I have a pretty positive view of environmental activism, but I didn’t know much about the ELF. A lot of people make documentaries because they have something they want to say, but I make them because there’s something I want to explore.
— Marshall Curry
I do not believe that I will ever write an adult novel from an animal’s point of view unless someday it becomes suddenly appealing to me to make a narrator a mentally ill pet. Never say never.
— Andrea Seigel
It’s sort of fair to say that Amazons, both as reality and as a dream of equality, have always been with us; it’s just that sometimes that fiery Amazon spirit is hidden from view or even suppressed.
— Adrienne Mayor
Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.
— Fidel Castro
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
What does the breathtaking view of the ocean mean without you?
— Craig Thompson, Good-Bye, Chunky Rice
The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima—the “eternal present.
— H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.
— Colin Powell
Staring at the light of another blinds the view of our own.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.
— Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
— Steve Jobs
The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.
— Tamara Hill, Mental Health In A Failed American System: What Every Parent, Family, & Caregiver Should Know
If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one’s equation, … one is on a sure line of progress.
— Paul A.M. Dirac
In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.
— Simon Van Booy
The Veil of Consciousness is a thin sheath thatI wear to view the transparency of the life thatSurrounds me.
— Sandra Proto, Sketches: An Ekphrasic Journey
If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you will miss the road! Life is an art of catching both the road and the view!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Clinton’s hands remain incredibly clean, don’t they, and Tony Blair’s smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
— Harold Pinter
Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other’s point of view?
— William Shatner
In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.
— Pierre Elliott Trudeau
I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
— Sir Laurence Olivier
There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with “The Divine Presence”
Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical.
— Mango Wodzak, Destination Eden
It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.
— Elon Musk
My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That’s the position I’ve had for some time, and I don’t intend to make any adjustments at this point… Or ever, by the way.
— Mitt Romney
Don’t set your sights low, just because someone else has a limited view of life’s possibilities. One person’s comfort zone may be another person’s cage.
— Eleanor Brownn
I don’t discuss evolution, to believe the theory is to deny many known evidences about the existence of a supreme creator (God) those who hold on to that view are in denials of reality and are by so doing ignorant
— Oluseyi Akinbami
We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
— Beyoncé Knowles
I don’t have to ask to know that something bad happened in your past.” “Because I doona smile?” Her smile was sad when her gaze met his. “It’s your eyes. Your view of the world is colored.” “As is yours.
— Donna Grant, Smoldering Hunger
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
— Karen Horney
Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view on earth…
— Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
Reflections in the heart are more pronounced than those we view in a mirror.
— Dixie Waters
To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two completely different points of view on life.
— Eraldo Banovac
What you do doesn’t define you. You can’t let your failures, or your success for that matter, dictate how you view yourself. You are loved.
— Taylor York
The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable.
— Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)
— Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
There are many levels of consciousness, but atomic consciousness or universal consciousness is the basis of all other levels of consciousness. A tree is very much conscious even though in our point of view they are not conscious.
— Debasish Mridha
When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.
— John C. Bean, Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom
The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.
— Kenneth Oakley
I look into my glass, And view my wasting skin, And say, ‘Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!
— Thomas Hardy, Chosen Poems of Thomas Hardy
Dear newlywed wife, somebody out there is determined to shape your view of intimacy and marriage. You get to choose who will shape your opinion; the Author of marriage or offended humans?
— Ngina Otiende, The Wedding Night: Embracing Sexual Intimacy as New Bride
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it.But no one has a right to coerce othersto act according to his own view of truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are differentiated by their abstraction.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living
Empathy was written from many male and female points of view because each character reacts differently to the emotional fallout from one binding circumstance
— Annie Wright’s stroke.
If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.
— Olivier Theyskens
The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don’t have an eagle’s eye, that’s why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
When wisdom arises, our inherent power as a being naturally arises as well, and then we begin to view things differently. We begin to see things based on the truth that we have found inside, not the truth that isimposed by others on us.
— M. Laurie Cantil, A Magician’s Visit
To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time.
— Gary North, Rapture Fever Hb
Isn’t that a view worth looking at? Nice and far from the marketplace, ain’t it? No buying and selling and getting gain. You don’t have to pay anything- all that sea and sky free- ‘without money and without price.
— L.M. Montgomery
When we begin to view our experiences through the lens of gratitude, our heart, mind and spirit naturally expand.
— David Brown Jr., Letters for Lucia: 8 Principles for Navigating Adversity
We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
There is love in everything, and when we really live and view life with an open heart (and live in our truth), the light illuminates the way.
— Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos, Living in Light, Love & Truth: You Can Positively Change Your Life by Living in Light, Love, & Truth-Awareness + Reflection + Learning + Application
My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it’s not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That’s rubbed some feathers the wrong way.
— Michael Steele
[A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. … [T]his can never match Reality, … because the world isn’t frozen.
— Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
I subscribe to William Faulkner’s’ view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
— Ken Burns
unless you’re the lead dog the view never changes…mercy out does justice every time:always find your way back home/
— Bob Mitchley, Breaking Through
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case.
— Abraham Lincoln
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