Best views & matter Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.”

Ifs Country Matter Law Desire Choices Views Majority Intention West Iran Monopoly Benign Condescending

Author:Azar Nafisi

“My view is, Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter, my view is I'm in Washington to try to work with people.”

People Trying Matter Views Republican Democrat

Author:Mark Pryor

“All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.”

Mind Kind Matter Body Sports Views Health Buddhism Shapes No Matter What Point Of View Your Body Athletics Disharmony

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.”

Matter Facts Views Britain Get Away Foreigners Where You Come

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.”

Matter Reason Body Speak Simple Space Views Property Refuse Filling

Author:Nikola Tesla

“The humble person is open to being corrected, whereas the arrogant is clearly closed to it. Proud people are supremely confident in their own opinions and insights. No one can admonish them successfully: not a peer, not a local superior, not even the pope himself. They know - and that is the end of the matter. Filled as they are with their own views, the arrogant lack the capacity to see another view.”

People Knows Persons Ends Matter Views Opinion Proud Capacity Filled Humble Insight Locals Superiors Arrogant Peers Pope Admonish Humble Person

Book:Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment

Source: Authenticity: A Biblical Theology of Discernment

“ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting.”

Matter Views Knowing Crime Position Criminals Guilty Attorney Fees Complicity Accomplices

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.”

Knows Men Matter Views Common One Thing Hearing Observation

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.”

Matter Philosophy Chance Results Views Creation Theory Evolution Pure Cosmos Materialism Materialistic

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.”

World Matter Spirit Views Materials Tragic Downfall Epoch Collision World View Material World Timeliness

Book:Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art

Source: Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art

“Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.”

People Ifs Knows Way May Matter Literature Community Views Professors Academic What Matters

Author:Robert B. Parker

“The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.”

World Matter Eye Views Seeing Special Sight Point Of View Painter Simplest Portal

Author:Richard Schmid

“Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.”

Trying Matter Whole Views Yoga Tough No Matter What Work Out Spending Whole Life Karma Tough Times Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of what really makes us happy, cuts to the core of things. It takes him only twelve words to get to the heart of the matter: Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely.”

Men Want Heart Matter Bigs Desire Views Cutting Fans Fame Fortune Core Pursuit Lovely Adam Twelve

Book:How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

Source: How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness

“In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.”

“If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.”

Source: Happiness

“It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.”

Thinking Writing Mean Matter Seems Fall Games Views Attitude Audience Hearing Point Of View Dull Prose Shallow Restless Foul Begets Writing By Writers American Writer

Author:Robertson Davies

“My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the first three decades of the century, and that is still being elaborated in our current theories of matter. The new concepts in physics have brought about a profound change in our world view; from the mechanistic conception of Descartes and Newton to a holistic and ecological view, a view which I have found to be similar to the views of mystics of all ages and traditions.”

“Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with her husband.”

Matter Views Husband Opposites Discussing

Book:Phineas Redux

Source: Phineas Redux

“Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed that universities had played their part in computer design, and that the matter could now safely be left to industry. [...] Apart from the obvious functions of keeping in the public domain material that might otherwise be hidden, universities can make a special contribution by reason of their freedom from commercial considerations, including freedom from the need to follow the fashion.”

“David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.”

“From this new point of view, the universe I had inhabited became an object I could perceive in its entirety. It was a hypersphere embedded in a cloud of alternative states - the sum of all possible quantum trajectories from the big bang to the decay of matter. "Reality" - history as we had known or inferred it - was only the most likely of these possible trajectories. There were countless others, real in a different sense: a vast but finite set of paths not taken, a ghostly forest of quantum alternatives, the shores of an unknown sea.”

“Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subject matter that reflects the sophistication and beauty I find in nature - all presented from a unique point of view - can only be successfully achieved with a sound command of the painter's craft... history will determine how successful I have been.”

“The adjective "political" in "political philosophy" designates not so much the subject matter as a manner of treatment; from this point of view, I say, "political philosophy" means primarily not the philosophic study of politics, but the political, or popular, treatment of philosophy, or the political introduction to philosophy the attempt to lead qualified citizens, or rather their qualified sons, from the political life to the philosophic life.”

Mean Matter Philosophy Political Views Study Subjects Son Citizens Point Of View Treatment Qualified Introduction Political Philosophy Subject Matter Adjectives Political Life Philosophic

Author:Leo Strauss

“My own views on all matters of public revenue and public expenditure are conditioned by an acute appreciation of whose is the sacrifice that produces public revenue and to whom accrues the benefit of public spending.”

Matter My Own Views Sacrifice Produce Benefits Appreciation Spending Revenue Expenditures

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.”

“A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.”

Knows Sometimes Matter Joy Night Dark Views Morning Higher Mentor

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques chased them further and further, with the consequence that the fishermen of Biarritz discovered America before Columbus did. This is a matter for local pride but on a larger view it is not quite so stunning, since with the possible exception of the Swiss everybody discovered America before Columbus did.”

Matter America Used Views History Century Humour Pride Consequence Moved Locals Exception Efficiency Hunts Whales Fisherman Stunning Columbus Swiss Basques

Book:Flying Visits

Source: Flying Visits

“I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature or where people are deeply divided about whether it is... Americans are plainly and persistently divided about abortion and the fiat of government cannot settle the issue as a matter of conscience or of conduct.”

People Should Believe Matter Government I Believe Religious Decision Views Issues Atheism Authority Conscience Positive Atheism Witness Settling Abortion Divided

Author:Edward Kennedy

“Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.”

Said Matter Would Be Young Church Views Alive Brother Healthy Horror Pure Decided Prejudice Unions Dues Snow Brothers And Sisters Offspring Polygamy Bros

Author:Abraham H. Cannon

“War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.”

Stills War Matter Action Political Views Shapes Destruction Hostile

Book:Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

“I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of view. After four tracks, you start to get worn down no matter how good it is. It can be relentlessly good, but it's still going to wear you out.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Stills Matter Views Records Four Track Point Of View Worn Songwriters Tedious

Author:Andrew Bird

“The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.”

Looks Matter Seems Law Evil Left Loses Justice Views Habit Citizens Gains Advantage Errors Point Of View Rulers Caution Disobedience

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is - the picture of the world that's presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies. It's all been a marvelous success from the point of view in deterring the threat of democracy, achieved under conditions of freedom, which is extremely interesting. It's not like a totalitarian state, where it's done by force. These achievements are under conditions of freedom.”

Source: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

“What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.”

Ends Matter Views Comedy

Author:Gore Vidal

“Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.”

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.”

Ifs Matter Use Might Able Sides Results Views Perspective Fairs Prejudice Regard Disappointment Excuse Comforting Save Me

Author:Karl Kraus

“In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.”

Source: Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation

“Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere talent copies what it thinks is nature, only to find it has been deceived by the external grossness of things.”

Thinking Has Beens Matter Reality Views Talent Materials Genius Mere Copies Realism Selection Deceived Effectiveness

Author:Julia Marlowe

“Let me repeat: Observe a particle as a wave, and it is a wave. Observe it as matter, and it is matter. ... Thus it is our point of view, the way we look at reality that makes reality the way it is.”

Way Looks Matter Reality Views Let Me Wave Point Of View Repeats Particles

Author:Joachim-Ernst Berendt

“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.”

World Matter Philosophy Views Principles Atheism Obvious Deny Refusal Overlooked

Author:Sam Harris

“Here is an example of Confucius sayings: "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." In a few words, Confucius teaches us about patience, perseverance, discipline, and hard work. But if you probe further, you will see more layers. Confucius' philosophies have significantly influenced spiritual and social thought. His views bear insight and depth of wisdom. You can apply his teachings in every sphere of life. Confucius' profound teachings are based on humanism.”

Ifs Long Doe Matter Hard Philosophy Spiritual Social Views Teach Teaching Example Hard Work Bears Discipline Profound Depth Perseverance Humanism Insight Spheres Layers Few Words

Author:Confucius

“Most people view female directors as female only, that we only deal with women's issues and women characters. Although most of my films have dealt with women, I do have work that deals with other matters, and I'm always open to different stories regardless of gender.”

People Different Matter Character Stories Film Views Deals Issues Directors Female Gender

Author:Shahad Ameen

“The Hubbell space telescope, it's first year up after they fixed it, categorized and counted 500 billion galaxies in any one photograph field of view of dark matter. That's like grains of sand at the beach and you've just got a handful. It's massive amounts. I'm sure that of all of the galaxies, and I'm sure the universe is teeming with life.”

Years Firsts Matter Universe Dark Space Views Fields Amount Photograph Billions Beach Fixed Sand Massive Grain Galaxy Handful Telescopes Grains Of Sand Dark Matter

Author:Alex Jones

“Others who openly discuss matters of spirituality often ignore the warning signs. They are so in love with each other, enjoy being with each other, and can see themselves making each other happy for the rest of their lives, and they close their eyes to huge differences in their views of spirituality.”

Matter Eye Spirituality Enjoy Differences Views Huge Warning Warning Signs

Book:Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married

Source: Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married

“As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.”

Ifs Writing Trying Matter Philosophy Character Stories Views Point Of View Plot

Author:Andre Dubus

“God has given us a revelation in regard to celestial marriage. I did not make it. He has told us certain things pertaining to this matter, and they would like us to tone that principle down and change it and make it applicable to the views of the day. This we cannot do; nor can we interfere with any of the commands of God to meet the persuasions or behests of men. I cannot do it, and will not do it.”

Men Matter Certain Given Views Principles Regard Down And Command Tone Revelations Interfere Persuasion Celestial Polygamy

Author:John Taylor

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