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Quotes About Viewpoint

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
~ Andy Rooney
Something occurs to me. "Have you ever tried writing something from Astrid's point of view?
~ Jody Gehrman
Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man's notion of good when it differs from ours.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
~ Anne Fadiman
You know, this entire industry, and its not just this industry, it's most people in media, come from one point of view. One. And I am making you a promise on that one. And there is one of me, and they can't stand that there is one dissenting voice. They can only indict my motives.
~ Will Cain
Every antagonist is a protagonist in his own right.
~ Puneet Issar
There were thermal springs, and at the end of the preceding century the town had been laid out modestly as a spa. Hot water still ran in the bath house. Two old gardeners still kept some order in the ornamental grounds. The graded paths, each with a "view-point," the ruins of a seat and of a kiosk, where once invalids had taken their
~ Evelyn Waugh
You probably think you know...The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
La vita, dopo tutto, appare molto più brillante se la si considera da un solo punto di vista
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say the way God sees events from above?
~ Flaubert Gustave
I'm the wrong person to ask for advice when it comes to losing weight because I've never been on that side of the fence.
~ Diana Penty
I'm not a great fan of very short films.
~ Ken Loach
Whoever has the best take is what matters. My challenge is finding the best take, and it'll always be that.
~ Hasan Minhaj
It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.
~ Arthur Herzog
I think romantic comedies in general are marketed towards women, and I think men are half the romance, so why not have some that are truly from a male point of view.
~ Jay Chandrasekhar
I've never seen a good tennis movie. They all were terrible.
~ John McEnroe
When one supports a certain radical position, one should know the conservative position that one is rejecting. What troubles me is the unexamined adoption of a radical stance.
~ Robert Pincus-Witten
Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Women shouldn't be in combat, said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. Neither should men, in my opinion.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
see perhaps four and a half miles, and the lookout
~ Louis L'Amour
To a wandering man in the wilderness a back trail must be as important as that ahead, for it might be the direction taken tomorrow, and when one faced around the trail looked far, far different. Gigantic boulders seen from one direction might be low, flat rocks seen from another . . . all things were different. Studying trails had taught him much about life, that much depends on the viewpoint.
~ Louis L'Amour
There is a difference between an idea and ideology.
~ Louis Menand
Knowing what a person believes on a certain subject is not identical to knowing how that person thinks.
~ Sam Harris
There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.
~ Katherine Mansfield