F Quotes
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“From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent on karmic forces, our state of mind at the time of death can influence the quality of our next rebirth. So at the moment of death, in spite of the great variety of karmas we have accumulated, if we make a special effort to generate a virtuous state of mind, we may strengthen and activate a virtuous karma, and so bring about a happy rebirth.”
“From a Buddhist point of view, the first thing to help is yourself, to get your own mind together. And to really understand how to benefit beings, not just on the physical level, but on all levels. Then there are endless beings you can benefit.”
“From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.”
Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.”
“From a business perspective, the question related to cities and sustainability is clear and compelling: can you have a healthy company in an unhealthy city? Arguably, no. Companies need healthy cities to provide reliable infrastructure, an educated and vital workforce, a vibrant economy, and a safe and secure environment to survive and thrive. Business executives have a lot to learn from cities, and a lot to contribute, and this book shows the way, chronicling the successes and the lessons learned about what it takes to make a city healthy, in every sense of the word.”
“From a cell to a jet call it Con-Air”
“From a certain age onwards, sleep never came easily to me and, the more problems kept piling up, the less I mingled with Morpheus.”
Source: Eleanora's Sundown: Eleanora's Sundown, #1
“From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside.”
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.”
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
Source: The great wall of China: and other pieces
“From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.”
“From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.”
“From a child, God did embrace me in His arms till I got older and lifted my hands in the rebellion of His love till I could lift them no more falling to the ground, I did find His embrace lifting me up again.”
Source: Application Commentary On Friendship: The Book Of Ruth
“From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.”
“from a child’s perspective all adults are old and fat”
Source: Girl, Woman, Other
“From a child's play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world--what he would like it to be, what his concerns are, what problems are besetting him.”
“From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.”
“From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever.
[From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]”
“From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It's love. It's self-sacrifice. That's what love is all about. The marriage ceremony says it very well: sacrifice is difficult, but love can make it a joy.”
“From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.”
“From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.”
“From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to the company's future. Because innovation in the future will either be from the cloud out to all devices, or from devices as supported by software in the cloud. I think it's important for Microsoft to participate both ways.”
“From a cognitive perspective, Systems Thinking integrates analysis and synthesis.”
Source: Digital Hybridity
“From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.”
“From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.”
“From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual in the range and effectiveness of methods employed to restrain freedom of thought... Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things.”
“From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.”
“From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.”
“From a cosmic perspective, our world is just a fantastically improbable fragment of perfect chaos.”
Source: Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe
“From a counterintelligence perspective, social media also makes it more difficult for people to recognize, let alone believe, that they've been duped. In the context of the analog, pre-internet intelligence world, most people prefer to believe that they're not working with an intelligence officer [of foreign adversary] even if they have suspicions. Most would rather believe, for example, that they have a friendship with a professor at a foreign university.”
Source: Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump
“From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.”
“From a creative standpoint, I'm interested not only in the idea of helping couples and women, but challenging myself creatively, and doing each one better than the last thing I did. I think by doing that, by adding a visual element to these films, it really makes a huge difference.”
“From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that's fantastic for me.”
“From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people.”
“From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.”
“From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.”
“From a distance, Mikalla was a flash of blistering color, more like a walking lightning bolt than a mere human.”
Source: The Conjurer
“From a distance, the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm looked okay.”
“From a distance the rushing of the torrent delights and uplifts us, but it rocks us in a flimsy boat, we are overwhelmed by despair. The same applies to danger.”
“From a distance the world looks blue and green,
and the snow-capped mountains white.
From a distance the ocean meets the stream,
and the eagle takes to flight.
From a distance, there is harmony,
and it echoes through the land.
It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace,
it's the voice of every man”
“From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because of that, humans tend not to look into our eyes too closely, which I've been told is socially preferable, as eyes without souls behind them can be frightening.”
“From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this way, everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate the whole of creation, in whole or in certain parts.”
“From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.”
Source: Joe College: A Novel
“From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.”
“From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.”
Source: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 1) (The Annotated Books)
“From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.”
“From a FEMININE woman to a SENSUAL woman is a whole other conversation. The latter is about putting MORE skin in the game not because you NEED to but because you DESIRE to.”
“From a FEMININE woman to a SENSUAL woman is a whole other conversation. The latter is about putting your MORE skin in the game not because you NEED to but because you DESIRE to.”
“From a frost-white dwelling emerged a man whose bird’s nest hair and pantomime complexion betrayed a long affair with the vine. His foghorn voice spewed forth an impure torrent of oafish ignorance, pronouncements that could have penetrated through walls from indoors.”
“From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.”