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Quotes About View

I am a camera with its shutter open
~ Christopher Isherwood
It does appear, then, that what you find in the landscape of the Old Testament when you 'get there' very much depends on whom you take with you and through whose eyes you view it.
~ Christopher J.H. Wright
I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote I am that I am, for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.
~ Umberto Eco
Cuando hablo con Ubertino me da la impresión de que el infierno es el paraíso visto desde la otra parte. No
~ Umberto Eco
Joinville's perspective shifts vertically, depending on whether he has fallen from his horse or just remounted.
~ Umberto Eco
Seek to view all of life as an opportunity to give God honor and glory.
~ Valerie E Hess
I allowed myself a microscopic view into his ice-colored eyes. It was like viewing one of those photographs of the Arctic region – very foreign, exotic, clearly a place you've never dreamed of going.
~ Vicki Covington
From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.
~ Victor Hugo
she'd let weakness in, and loss and regret, and those emotions had tainted her view of herself, but her love had run deep and been honest. Her biggest failure had been an inability to love herself as well as she'd loved her family.
~ Kristin Hannah
I'm afraid optics are all that's left inside the Beltway
~ Kyle Mills
To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.
~ ladd george trumbull
While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.
~ Cassandra Clare
You know," Kirk said finally, breaking the silence. "I see it. He is pretty hot.
~ Cassandra Clare
W]hat is this state, from women's point of view? The state is male in the feminist sense: the law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women. ... The state's formal norms recapitulate the male point of view on the level of design.
~ Catharine A. MacKinnon
That's the thing about this other side we're on. There is no landscape. If you want to see things in any kind of context, you have to pick a context. You have to take one from home.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Yet they are unmoved when told of the cruel blow that fortune has dealt them, happy to see out their days on this unknown and unspoiled atoll. They will tell you that the view from their windows is infinitely more magnificent than Manhattan's glittering skyline.
~ Giles Milton
Where you are standing—your spot on the ground amid this vast world—and what you choose to look at from there means absolutely everything.
~ Gina Frangello
God revealed that my view of my life and purpose was small compared to his. I had separated all the areas of my life and was destroying myself trying to keep everything balanced.
~ Glynnis Whitwer
Isn't the Grand Canyon just gorges?
~ Internet meme
Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.
~ Jack McDevitt
The classical view that ancient Sumer was a miracle of irrigation organized by the state in an arid landscape turns out to be totally wrong.
~ James C. Scott
I saw crime everywhere. Crime was not isolated incidents destined for ultimate solution and adjudication. Crime was the continual circumstance. It was all day, every day. The ramifications extended to the 12th of Never. This is a policeman's view of crime. I did not know it then.
~ James Ellroy
Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.
~ Asa Larsson
To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
~ Dennis Prager