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Quotes About Views

To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.
~ Alain de Botton
Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.
~ Alain de Botton
It is surprising to find that Proust held some extremely caustic views about friendship- in fact, to find that he had an unusually limited conception of the value of his, or indeed anyone's friendships.
~ Alain de Botton
There were a host of people who viewed my rejection of National Socialism as exaggerated and who perceived my sharp tone as un-Austrian. Even many Austrians whose political views were relatively good found my stance too abrupt and not in keeping with Austrian sensibilities.
~ Dietrich von Hildebrand
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.
~ Doctor Who
People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.
~ Nhat Hanh
There Is No Single View on Marriage Presented in the Bible
~ Jennifer Wright Knust
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
~ Jerome Bruner
Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.
~ Jerome Lawrence
was brilliant. It is a pleasure to hear really well-informed talk, unpunctuated by foolish and ignorant remarks (except occasionally from Randolph), and it is a relief to be in the background with occasional commissions to execute, but few views to express, instead of being expected to be interesting because one is the P.M.'s Private Secretary.
~ Erik Larson
I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.
~ Tom Araya
When people don't like my politics, I am happy to have a political discussion with them.
~ Meghan McCain
All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
~ Walter Cronkite
of uniformed and plain-clothed officers, and a tent, and the allure was too much to resist. Even the tourists were ignoring two of the region's most iconic views—the booming image of Mount Rainier dominating the
~ Robert Dugoni
I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know that's not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.
~ Robert Gibbs
Tu entorno moldea realmente aquello que percibes, haces y te inspira. El arte alimenta mi alma. Los buenos libros blindan mi esperanza. Las conversaciones profundas aumentan mi creatividad. La música deliciosa eleva mi corazón. Las vistas hermosas fortalecen mi espíritu.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Early disappointments with people left Washington with a residual cynicism that was to jibe well with Hamilton's views.
~ Ron Chernow
What is called freedom of thought in a large number of cases amounts to—and even for all practical purposes consists of—the ability to choose between two or more different views presented by the small minority of people who are public speakers or writers. If this choice is prevented, the only kind of intellectual independence of which many people are capable is destroyed, and that is the only freedom of thought which is of political importance.
~ Leo Strauss
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.
~ Nhat Hanh
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
~ Albert Einstein
The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS [coordinate system] could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, "the Sun is at rest and the Earth moves," or "the Sun moves and the Earth is at rest," would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS.
~ Albert Einstein
She did not have strong views on politics. She did not like the confrontational nature of much political discussion; why could people not argue politely, she wondered, taking into account the views of others and accepting that people might differ with one another in perfectly good faith?
~ Alexander McCall Smith
In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
But if the views of some migrant communities on homosexuality were only a couple of generations out of date, the views of portions of those communities on the subject of women were shown to be out of date by many centuries, at least.
~ Douglas Murray