Quotes About View

But is the Mona Lisa really art? Well then, what about an undetectably perfect copy of the Mona Lisa? That comparison (however sneaky) points up the fact that it's surprisingly difficult, maybe even impossible, to view any single work in isolation and rule definitively, "This is art" or "This is craft." Striking that difference means comparing successive pieces made by the same person. In

What a view, i said again. The river was blank and mindless with beauty. It was the most glorious thing I have ever seen. But it was not seeing, really. For once it was not just seeing. It was beholding. I beheld the river in its icy pit of brightness, in its far-below sound and indifference, in its large coil and tiny points and flashes of the moon, in its long sinuous form, in its uncomprehending consequence.

The Earth was never seen as a whole until astronauts viewed it for us from outside, and then we saw something very different from our expectation of a mere planet-sized ball of rock existing within a thin layer of air and water. Some astronauts, especially those who travelled as far as the moon, were deeply moved and saw the Earth itself as their home. Somehow we have to think like them and expand our instinctive recognition of life to include the Earth.

ANTICIPATE CONTINUOUSLY. NOW PRECISELY PRE-POSITION MYSELF FIRST FOR SAFETY, THEN FOR TRACTION AND THEN FOR THE ABSOLUTE CLEAREST VIEW OF THE VANISHING POINT.

The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous

Preferring the comforting messages of certain attributes of God, our lives have become a trifling with His holiness. We desperately need to regain this view of the highness and the holiness of God. His holiness is the ultimate clarity.

Grace easily turns to hyper-grace in a world that has lost its view of God's throne room and a biblical theology of sin.

Without a complete view of sin, people can burn out in their pursuit of pleasure.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labor, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

As I have understood more of the biblical view of heaven and earth, I realized that the real question I should be asking is not 'How do I get to heaven?', but, 'How can I be a part of heaven coming to earth?

You tried to …? How?' 'In the time-honoured fashion,' he said. 'My cuffs are too tight to gratify you with a view.

There are many difficulties inherent in a teleological view of creation," said Parker placidly.

He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.

This was perfectly true, and a very respectable view widely held by right-thinking people, who are largely recognizable as being right-thinking people by the mere fact that they hold this view.

I suppose the whole thing was highly irregular from a legal point of view, but it was great fun. And nobody was having more fun than the judge. It wasn't a real trial, you see, so he didn't have to worry about all the legal niceties.

looking across the bay toward Staten Island.

Now there has been a rearrangement of the kaleidoscope.

The real excitement of being a girl - of being, that is, a woman in embryo - was that life was such a wonderful gamble. You didn't know what was going to happen to you. That was what made being a woman so exciting. No worry about what you should be or do - Biology would decide. You were waiting for The Man, and when the man came, he would change your entire life, you can say what you like, that is an exciting point of view to hold at the threshold of life.

At all events, let us examine the position from the point of view of murder, not suicide." "Oh, all right. If you are on the scene, it probably would be murder!" For a moment Poirot smiled. "I hardly like that remark.

But that is how life is viewed. When you are young, you are YOUNG; when you are in vigour you are a 'VERY strong man'; when your vigour begins to fail, you are OLD. If old, you might as well be as old as possible.

The next morning we reach the Cilician Gates, and look out over one of the most beautiful views I know. It is like standing on the rim of the world and looking down on the promised land, and one feels much as Moses must have felt. For here, too, there is no entering in. ... The soft, hazy dark blue loveliness is a land one will never reach; the actual towns and villages when one gets there will be only the ordinary everyday world—not this enchanted beauty that beckons you down.

the fact that she and I are now incorporated into this unique subject, the subject of love that views the panorama of the world through the prism of our difference

I could watch news, but that'd be too much like work. Plus, the idea of staying informed these days is an illusion - you pick whichever version of events you're going to believe and then block out anything that contradicts or undermines that view.

on vacation. Leave a message. "Still here. No movement inside, far as I can tell. View's partially blocked by a large window sign. Bank's offering free checking,