Quotes About Vantage

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other than myself, to try to see the world through my characters' eyes. I often find that I'm able to understand certain emotional truths about my own life by exploring things from different vantages.

and the bellowing, disembodied "Ho, ho, ho" of the store Santa, still unseen from their vantage point, which never failed to startle the Fangs. Caleb found himself uttering sounds in groups of three, "Har, har, har," and "Hee, hee, hee," and "Hey, hey, hey," and "How, how, how," until Camille shushed him.

I'm merely exploring souls & cities From the vantage point Of my ivory tower built, Built with the assistance of Opium That's enough, isnt it?

Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.

The best view is always from the mountain you've climbed.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

Sometimes two people could look at the same picture and see different images. Position determines perspective.

Supe que contemplaba el mundo desde su cumbre más alta. Al fondo, muy bajo, se extendía, en un océano inmenso de puntos titilantes, el plano completo de las luces de la ciudad...

Berkeley was a lookout and a hideout.

Looked at from the vantage points offered by fictional stories, slavery, like the glass viewed from above, at first glance, can appear to be merely trivial, two-dimensional, erotic behavior that is not deserving of any serious attention.

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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What is love anyway? From my new vantage point, I realize that love is nothing more than a messy conglomeration of need, desperation, fear of death and insecurity about penis size.

It depends on how you look at it.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.

There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

If capitalism persists for several more centuries, as seems to be highly likely, then from the vantage point of the future, capitalism may be seen as the system responsible for the transformation of the human condition from one of mass subsistence to mass prosperity.

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

I sit on the board of Cloudera, a big vantage point of big data.

The Earth is a beautiful planet. The space station is a great vantage point to observe it and share our planet in pictures. It makes you more of an environmentalist.

On stage, everyone stays put; the vantage point is always the vantage point, and you have to play to the size of the house. And of course, on film, there's different angles, different shots, so that determines how animated or how still you must be.