Quotes About Perspectives

I do not want to muddle about with Politicks, and whenever two Folk of any sort are in a room together there are always Politicks to be muddled in.

gli uomini cercano le brave ragazze che facciano le cattive solo per loro; le donne cercano i cattivi ragazzi che facciano i bravi soltanto per loro. Io i cattivi ragazzi, i presunti duri, li ho sempre trovati noiosi e patetici.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

I respect the decision of others. But I retain my own deductions.

Awakening is a different name for raising one's frequency. It is about becoming more aware of different perspectives, from which you may choose whatever you resonate with.

As it's related to publishing, I think magazines really benefit from having a staff with a range of different perspectives and cultural references so that any reader can feel like there is someone on the masthead they can relate to, someone they can trust to speak up for them. It's great to see that idea being embraced more and more.

If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.

If vitality gives a man's perspectives color, if community bonds give them breadth, if awareness of the land makes them realistic, a deep sense of loyalty gives them personal meaning and integrity.

So many men, so many opinions

So many men, so many opinions; every one his own way.

So many men so many questions. (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)

Women marry men hoping they will change. They don't. Men marry women hoping they won't change. They do.

At root, all of these perspectives on the local church stem from the same problem: a failure to understand or take seriously God's intent that the local church be central to the life of his people. People don't become committed church members—and therefore healthy Christians—because they don't understand that such a commitment is precisely how God intends his people to live out the faith and experience Christian love.

The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

But I do think its necessary to have debates.

People have their reasons for the damnedest things in my experience.

For reasons both explicable and debatable, Xers complained less pedantically than the demographic they followed and less vehemently than the demographic that came next.

The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is -- second only to American political campaigns -- the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time.

getting six woman to agree on something is like getting Dr. Laura to agree with Howard Stern.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.