View Point Quotes

An outsider's point of view is always handy. ~ Pat Oliphant

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view. ~ Edward Abbey

You get Don King's point of view in what is almost a Shakespearean, classical technique. He comes across almost like a lovable rogue, like Iago in 'Othello' or Richard III. He's doing all these bad things, but I kind of like him. It's like 'Pulp Fiction': Everybody's a bad guy, yet you like them. ~ Ving Rhames

You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view. ~ Maggie Carey

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view. ~ Clint Eastwood

I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are. ~ Wallace Shawn

The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry. ~ Ian McKellen

We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view. ~ Roger Ailes

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view. ~ Joe Namath

I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view. ~ S.E. Hinton

I have a certain point of view, a certain way to plate food, certain ingredients that I like to use. ~ Charlie Trotter

I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view. ~ Laura Bush

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view. ~ Colin Wilson

The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again. ~ Tia Carrere

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America. ~ Ruben Blades

Integrated marketing communications is a way of looking at the whole marketing process from the view point of the customer. ~ Philip Kotler

When being objective, we can transcend and look back at our constructs with powerful clarity; instead of looking through them, which can give a murky and distorted view. ~ Jay Woodman

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view? ~ Lois McMaster Bujold

And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings. ~ Arthur Cayley

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

I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't. ~ Ridley Scott

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. ~ Ernst Mach

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me. ~ Amelie Nothomb

To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of a figure, a figure outside of a body. ~ David Novak

I see people as they really are from a pure point of view. ~ Sun Ra

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view. ~ Dan Farmer

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations. ~ Roger Penrose

Certainly it is much easier to think about negotiating and having deals when there is a singular represented point of view. That pretty much is a given. ~ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other." -Rhage
"That depends more on your mouth than any floorplan." -Phury ~ J.R. Ward

You don't want to make a movie just to make a movie. You better have a point of view. ~ Drew Goddard

Being the only person with a particular view point doesn't make one wrong. ~ Steven Redhead

I want to make movies about my country from my point of view. ~ Tommy Lee Jones

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view. ~ Katy Perry

I was a disembodied, wandering view-point. ~ Olaf Stapledon

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience. ~ Bashar Al-Assad

As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just want to show issues from a different point of view. I want to show issues from a perspective that may not be highlighted. ~ Nicola Monaghan

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view. ~ Walter Murch

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view. ~ Bjorn Borg

Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient's point of view, that's zero. ~ Nicholas Negroponte

I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive. ~ Archie Shepp

I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my career, like the first person or the omniscient view point, but I actually hate the omniscient viewpoint. None of us have an omniscient viewpoint; we are alone in the universe. We hear what we can hear ... we are very limited. If a plane crashes behind you I would see it but you wouldn't. That's the way we perceive the world and I want to put my readers in the head of my characters. ~ George R R Martin

Shall I tell you the difference between our Holy Father and ourselves? We see things from a single view-point. He sees things from several. We decide that the thing is as we see it. But He has seen it otherwise, and He presents it as a more or less complete coaction of its qualities. See this sapphire. Well, you see the face of it: underneath, if I take it off my finger, there are a number of facets to be seen and a number more which are hidden by the gold of the setting. Now my meaning is that our Holy Father has seen all the facets as well as the table of the sapphire, or the thing. Consequently He knows a great deal more about the sapphire, or the thing, than we do. You must have noted that in Him. You must have noted how that every now and then, when He deigns to explain, He makes mysteries appear most wonderfully lucid. ~ Frederick Rolfe

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism. ~ Vidal Sassoon

I've only written two novels, neither of them published, where the book is dominated by a male point of view; in the 'Onyx Court' series, it's split roughly 50/50. ~ Marie Brennan

Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view. ~ Kevin Hart

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything. ~ Ted Nelson

As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view of Third World countries are never expressed. We don't have that possibility, sometimes, to spread what we feel and how we see things. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny. ~ Jim Gaffigan

A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive. ~ E. M. Forster

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox. ~ Sun Myung Moon

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not. ~ Michael Ondaatje

The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there. ~ Arthur Jones

What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in 2009. If you want to see how Oz's creator envisioned his own work, here it is. ~ Kage Baker

I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view. ~ Richard Mourdock

I think people have a right to their point of view. ~ Annette Bening

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. ~ Wilhelm Wundt

Intoxication over material thing is parigraha (acquisitiveness; it takes one away from the Self), not having intoxication for material thing is aparigraha (non-acquisitiveness). ~ Dada Bhagwan

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake. ~ Thabo Mbeki

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view. ~ Andrew McCarthy

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. ~ Lillian Hellman

There is this idea that it's very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think it's different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other. ~ Vincent Cassel

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge. ~ Richard Branson

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

To see from all the "view points"; is called 'Gnan' [True Knowledge]. ~ Dada Bhagwan

As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's impossible for it to be yours. ~ Crispin Glover

In a film called 'Senna,' the clue is in the title, and we have a Brazilian badge on our sleeve as we were making it. We were making it from Senna's point of view, with Senna narrating it. ~ Asif Kapadia

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

One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about. ~ Luke Evans

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view. ~ Shirley Manson

From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters. ~ Sharon Salzberg

If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality. ~ Madame De Stael

Writers of memoir are storytellers, and the point of a personal story is to make a truth that resonates for you, that closes the experience around a narrative and brings it to completion. ~ Lisa Dale Norton

Attachment to the false view of self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own. To break through this false view is to be liberated from every sort of fear, pain, and anxiety. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear. ~ William James

I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community. ~ Chen Shui-bian

A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point of metaphysics. To a rational mind, nothing bad ever really happens. He was talking high-minded balls. Twaddle! I thought. I said, 'Oh? Do you mean that every gas chamber has a silver lining? ~ Saul Bellow

I have dreams too, you know. Dreams…and I could let myself dissolve
into them, let them take me over…but surely the dream isn't all there is? We have to wake up at some
point, don't we? Because…because then… ~ Han Kang

Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time. ~ Richard Koch

And what was the point of an easy answer like that. Where did it lead. Nowhere good, in his experience. Easy answers got to be an addiction; Terrible had spent his whole life seeing people reach for easy but find they really grabbed hard without realizing it. ~ Stacia Kane

Up to a point a person's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow. ~ Louis L'Amour

I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things. ~ D. A. Pennebaker

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are 'shaggy dog' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it. ~ W. H. Auden

People ask me this a lot, what a song's about ... I do think analyzing a song can be interesting, although it doesn't necessarily get to the point. It's a whole other side activity. I do like making a thing into pictures. If I get an abstract idea and all the words in it don't represent tangible things, I might try to take the idea and make it into a picture, create a little scene there, an image. ~ Tom Verlaine

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something. ~ Henry Moore

A few words in defense of military scientists. I agree that squad leaders are in the best position to know what and how much their men and women need to bring on a given mission. But you want those squad leaders to be armed with knowledge, and not all knowledge comes from experience. Sometimes it comes from a pogue at USUHS who's been investigating the specific and potentially deadly consequences of a bodybuilding supplement. Or an army physiologist who puts men adrift in life rafts off the dock at a Florida air base and discovers that wetting your uniform cools you enough to conserve 74 percent more of your body fluids per hour. Or the Navy researcher who comes up with a way to speed the recovery time from travelers' diarrhea. These things matter when it's 115 degrees and you're trying to keep your troops from dehydrating to the point of collapse. There's no glory in the work. No one wins a medal. And maybe someone should. ~ Mary Roach

Case in point: Byrdie, the son growing effortlessly into lifelong boyhood. Still a schoolboy, soon to be an old boy, blithely accepting accidents as privileges - for instance, his natural immunity to HIV. (Byrdie liked studious, upper-class females. They were not exactly high risk.) Byrdie was the phoenix edition of Lee, adapted to the novel environment, and Lee was a useless relic. He had positioned himself all his life as a rebel against a hegemonic order no one was interested in questioning anymore. It had lost its power to crush and all its clumsy weapons that inspired active fear. Its dominance was equal, but separate. ~ Nell Zink

When we do get to the point where things aren't good, we know how to smarten up and fix it before it gets ugly. ~ Margo Timmins

Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living.
that's the whole point of keeping papers. It doesn't matter if it's a hundred years or only a few weeks. It's all filed away, fresh as the day it went under the covers. ~ Sara Sheridan

Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight?
(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.)
Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be lonely.
Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage?
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher, what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of Lethe? ~ Allen Ginsberg

I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere. ~ Kacey Musgraves

But Saeed's father was thinking also of the future, even though he did not say this to Saeed, for he feared that if he said this to his son that his son might not go, and he knew above all else that his son must go, and what he did not say was that he had come to that point in a parent's life when, if a flood arrives, one knows one must let go of one's child, contrary to all the instincts one had when one was younger, because holding on can no longer offer the child protection, it can only pull the child down, and threaten them with drowning, for the child is now stronger than the parent, and the circumstances are such that the utmost of strength is required, and the arc of a child's life only appears for a while to match the arc of a parent's, in reality one sits atop the other, a hill atop a hill, a curve atop a curve, and Saeed's father's arc now needed to curve lower, while his son's still curved higher, for with an old man hampering them these two young people were simply less likely to survive. ~ Mohsin Hamid

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime. ~ Karl Popper

Many people in recovery find that they feel spiritually grounded when in regular contact with the great outdoors. Others feel a deep serenity after lighting a candle in a church or temple or by chanting a sacred mantra. The point is that, unlike a typical religion that lays out a non-negotiable ideology, spirituality is expansive and deeply personal. ~ Christopher Dines

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me. ~ Sarah Kay

You know my issue isn't whether gay people go to heaven or straight people go to heaven. The point that I'm trying to make is that we as believers can have security in Christ when we are believers. We will all struggle, we will all fall prey to some type of sin, some will fall prey to the same types of sin over and over again. I don't differentiate between this one sin struggle than any other. ~ Alan Chambers

If he wishes to ground each of the four causes in an objectively given framework, Aristotle will need to advance some more detailed forms of argumentation. It will not suffice simply to point out that we may tend to be unsatisfied until we have cited all four causes, but then become satisfied once we have. Since he ~ Anonymous

All those other summers and those other kisses and everything else we shared, my dad choosing some random lake in some random town to stay in one year, the fights and the screw ups that helped us learn and gave us experiences with other people. They were all meant to happen, and our paths were supposed to cross over and over again. Until we found that point, the bright star in the summer sky that would be ours forever. ~ Nyrae Dawn

You know, you should think about getting in touch with Gabriel, he's your half-brother and also a really good guy." Delilah looks at me cynically. "Gabriel despises me." "He despises Ethan, you I think he might just have some time for. After all, you're both dhamphirs." "That's like me telling you you'll get along with George Bush because you're both human." Delilah replies snidely. I get her point, but still I grin and respond. "You're right, we would definitely get along. He'd make me feel all intelligent and shit. ~ L. H. Cosway