Quotes About View

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

The proper conceptual view is attained only through introspection.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

The most important part of vehicle maintenance is clean windows, so if you are broken down you will enjoy the beauty of the view.

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

There is a sunrise or a sunset from space every 92 minutes so there is an incredible amount of beauty to see from up there.

From a Higher Point Everything Looks more Little, but Business we do on the Ground.

If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çaml?ca of Istanbul.

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

The desire to replicate the—or a—viewer's view is realism's reason for being.

In the West we tend to think of compassion as a form of charity, but I share Lao-tzu's view that compassion for all beings—not least of all oneself—is the key to breaking down barriers among people.

officials gained their posts by demonstrating their knowledge of the Confucian classics; they had no reason to be versed in hydraulic engineering per se. In other words, there was a dangerously narrow view of what qualified a man for a government position (although in some ways the appointment of ministers in modern Western democracies is not so different).

In Malcolm's view the story was almost insufferable

H]e had this view of things - that most human activity was utter folly, his own included, and that his existence in the world made others nervous.

It was said that the view through the open window above the urinal, straight across the Bay to the Silver Span, was the finest obtainable from such a position anywhere in the world, but today Philip kept his eyes down. Foreshortened, yes, definitely.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness.

No! No! No! My suffering does matter. I want to live! I can't help but mix my life with that of the universe. Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness - how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view I have of things? This peephole is all I've got!

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

With this generic view of mind changing as background, I teased out a number of crucial dimensions. These can serve as a checklist when one is considering candidates for mind changing:

Both books are fun to read, and you learn a lot whichever view you adopt. J. David Archibald's Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)

Ask any of us: What is your concept of God, your understanding of sin or salvation, your account of the nature and purpose of the church, or your Christian view of right and wrong? Caught short by the question, we may come up with a pat answer. This is understandable. Or we may hesitate and stammer, unless we have stopped at some earlier point to consider the matter. And yet our day-to-day decisions are based upon this embedded theology.

Embellish truth only with a view to gain it the more full and free admission into your hearer's minds; and your ornaments will, in that case, be simple, masculine, natural.