Views Quotes · Page 55

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner…

— Wilbur Smith

Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of…

— Eric Maisel

So when you feel this time approaching, and your comfort zones in view. Stop and think about what you're feeling, and see…

— Julie Hebert

…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...

— Sharon Kay Penman

Our present political world-view, current in Germany, is based in general on the idea that creative, culture-creating force must indeed be attributed…

— Adolf Hitler

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back…

— Nelson Mandela

We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world…

— Al Sharpton

Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.

— Spencer Bachus

The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was on the second helicopter and arrived moments before Marine One touched down at Brenton Point in Newport, R.I. I bet…

— Pete Souza

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something…

— Joan Cusack

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a…

— Brit Marling

I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture…

— Eric Kandel

In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall…

— Patricia Highsmith

To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what…

— Thomas Jefferson

I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being…

— Martin Amis

There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by…

— Christopher Hitchens

Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or…

— Story Musgrave

If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…

— David Berlinski

These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up…

— Winston Churchill

The orthodox view of colour experience assumes that, when we see a colour difference between two surfaces viewed side-by-side, this is because…

— David Papineau

Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one…

— Abraham Lincoln

Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman…

— Sarah Lewis

The single biggest barrier to effective leadership is, in my view, the leadership industry itself. Instead of telling people the skills and…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we don't perceive.

— Frederick Lenz

I have always tried...to lay before the colored race a cross section of it's own life, to view the colored heart from…

— Oscar Micheaux

Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions.

— Chen Shui-bian

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin…

— E. O. Wilson

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

— Lawrence Lessig

I never wanted to be an actor. My dad was an actor, and he never brought joy home, so I didn't view…

— Jennifer Lawrence

The two partners in a relationship also need to have some similar interests in addition to a similar life view.

— John Friend

Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.

— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that…

— Dalia Mogahed

Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of…

— Jim Carrey

I don't quite understand what Tolstoy's actual personal view of Anna is - whether he likes her or hates her, whether she's…

— Keira Knightley

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

— M. H. Abrams

I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too…

— Tom Hornbein

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

— Elon Musk

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

— Warren Weaver

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and…

— David Korten