“By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.” StatesWould BeUnitedViewsUnited StatesStreetsNew YorkStandardsRiversTownsReasonableRiverside Author:Paul Goldberger
“I'm talking from the point of view of the States, we tend to assassinate people like Jesus, or if we don't we simply marginalise them. Oprah would have all those who think they are Messiah on her show, and we'd have six people who all claimed to be the Messiah, and we'd have got rid of Jesus and laughed him out of town. So as long as the Jesus that I'm hearing is there, I don't find him very comfortable.” PeopleIfsThinkingLongStatesShowsJesusViewsTalkingSixComfortableTownsHearingPoint Of ViewLaughedMessiah Author:John Dominic Crossan
“Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say. In a way, this stepping outside, in an attempt to judge enough to create a duplicate of it, makes you an outsider. . . . I think it's healthy for a writer to feel like an outsider. If you feel like an insider you get committed to a partisan view, you begin to defend interests, so you wind up not really empathizing with all mankind.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsFirstsEnoughHomeHateInterestViewsMankindJudgingWindHealthyAccountsTownsCommittedPoint Of ViewOutsidersHostileLove HatePartisansInsidersDuplicateFirst Home Author:John Updike
“The benefit of an open town hall meeting is one that you get to hear a lot of different views, and two it has credibility.” TwoDifferentViewsBenefitsTownsMeetingsHallsCredibilityDifferent Views Author:John McCain
“I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads. This had a profound effect on my view of the world - vast, open-ended, full of opportunity, and ready for exploration.” WorldRunningOpportunityViewsTreeEffectsFieldsReadyRedTownsProfoundTrackTinyMilesExplorationDirtPatchesWheatRailroadsOklahomaRailroad TracksDirt Roads Author:Chelsea Manning
“Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out the work of state and towns, which until recently did much of our charitable and cultural work. That view also blinkers out the role of mutual societies and churches.” DoeStatesGovernmentTodayChurchViewsRolesPoliticianTownsOddMutualAnarchyFederal GovernmentCharitableBlinkers Author:Amity Shlaes
“Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.” IfsWantLiteratureWalksViewsTownsSquaresFree SocietyBeing Free Author:Natan Sharansky
“From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.” PeopleAbleMovingGivenSocialViewsCitiesEconomicCommitmentTownsPoint Of ViewBeneficialHomeownership Author:James Surowiecki
“Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.” PeopleThinkingHeartMeanLongSoulShowsRunningSocialTermLevelsViewsLeaderProgressMediaPersonalityTownsSocial MediaShopsOwnersAllowingAvoidingSmall TownShort TermHeart And SoulBusiness LeadersGauges Author:Gary Vaynerchuk
“So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something? --Z P.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't mind. Translation: This weekend might be a good chance for us to see each other outside our school in a social environment, free of competetiton. I do not view other boys as threats, and I enjoy making them seem insignificant by calling them the wrong names. (Translation by Macey McHenry)” IfsWantMindSeemsMightSchoolNamesSocialEnjoyChanceViewsBoysEnvironmentCallingTownsThreatWeekendInsignificantTranslationsJimmyGood ChanceSocial EnvironmentMacey MchenryZachary Goode Author:Ally Carter
“The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to look again. There were only the roofs of the lower part of the palace and the town and the city walls. Beyond those were the hills on the far side of the Tustis Valley and the faded blue sky above them. It wasn't what the king saw that was important, it was what he couldn't see when he sat at the window with his face turned toward Eddis.” LooksImportantFacesSidesViewsCitiesDarknessSawsSkyWallKingsSummerWindowTownsBlueHillsSatValleysRoofPalacesStairsFadedBlue SkyFramedHomesicknessFar SideCity Walls Author:Megan Whalen Turner
“Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.” MenCountryPoliticalSocialViewsUniversalTownsFellowsDeedsEndeavorApprovalGood DeedsFellow ManBannerPropensityHollandGreatest FearGod And Country Book:The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel Source: The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
“You've always lived here, right?" Sarah asked. "Except for the years I went to college." "Didn't you ever want to move away? To experience something new?" "Like bistros?" She nudged him playfully with her elbow. "No, not just that. Cities have a vibrancy, a sense of excitement that you can't find in a small town." "I don't doubt it. But to be honest, I've never been interested in things like that. I don't need those things to make me happy. A nice quiet place to unwind at the end of the day, beautiful views, a few good friends. What else is there?” WantNeedsYearsEndsBeautifulMovingViewsCitiesDoubtNiceHonestCollegeQuietTownsBeing HonestExcitementThe End Of The DaySomething NewGood FriendSmall TownMake Me HappyElbowsUnwindQuiet PlaceVibrancyBistro Author:Nicholas Sparks
“As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.” KnowsRealAsksHousePoorViewsBeautyHigherPercentTownsSellsAgentsParksFlatsEstatesSurroundingsIdenticalEstate Agents Author:Nan Fairbrother