Point Of View Quotes - Page 37

• You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.

  John Leguizamo

  Country, Growing Up, Latin

  "John Leguizamo: 'Freak,' and proud of it". edition.cnn.com. November 2, 1998.

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• Looking at the Moonies from the normal, common-sense point of view, we certainly appear to be a bunch of crazy people!

  Sun Myung Moon

  Crazy, Views, People

  "Zoff off, Moon loon, and Cheat schmeat". www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2001.

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• I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.

  Mark Rothko

  Pain, Real, Views

  "Mark Rothko: A Biography". Book by James E. B. Breslin, p. 170, 1990.

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• 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.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Real, Taken, Clouds

  "Vortex". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2011.

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• It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Views, Opposites, Support

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly ImprobableFragility"”, p.32, Random House

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• From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else -- as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.

  Daniel Quinn

  Views, Crow, Special

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• From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.

  George Sarton

  Views, Essence, Achievement

  George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”

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• All men are our brothers. As far as the discovery of the truth is concerned, they are all working for the same purpose; they may be separated by the accidents of space and time, and by the exigencies of race, religion, nationality, and other groupings; from the point of view of eternity they are working together.

  George Sarton

  Brother, Men, Race

  George Sarton (1993). “Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this : a deep regret for many bitter words I have used in my life, deep sincere repentance for my violence of language. But I hope they will be forgiven me by God and man, because not once in all my life have I attacked anybody unjustly from my point of view, and without believing it was my duty to do so.

  Henri Bourassa

  Regret, Believe, Men

  "Fiery Politician, Dies, The Globe and Mail" by Henri Bourassa, p. A1, September 1, 1952.

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• People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Women, Thinking, Views

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.90, Penguin

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• All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with excessive symbolism is extraneous, and from my point of view, useless art. Anyone who understands life needs no handbook of poetry or philosophy to tell him what it is.

  Marsden Hartley

  Art, Philosophy, Views

  Marsden Hartley (2011). “Adventures in the Arts”, p.97, Hol Art Books

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• I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.

  Paul Emsley

  Believe, Artist, Views

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• 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.

  Nelson Shanks

  Successful, Unique, Light

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• If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength, seems to fare better when women control the means of production and reproduction. From this point of view, it is simply not in women's interest to support patriarchy or even a fabled "equality" with men. That women do so is more a sign of powerlessness than of any biologically based "superior" wisdom.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Mean, Men, Views

  Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”

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• Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.

  Leo Strauss

  Past, Views, Understanding

  Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• We somehow believe that our point of view is superior, higher than those of the greatest minds either because our point of view is that of our time, and our time, being later than the time of the greatest minds, can be presumed to be superior to their times; or else because we believe that each the greatest minds was right from his point of view, but not, as he claims, simply right.

  Leo Strauss

  Believe, Views, Mind

  Leo Strauss (1995). “Liberalism Ancient and Modern”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

  Leo Strauss

  Philosophy, Mean, Son

  "What is Political Philosophy?". Book by Leo Strauss, 1959.

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• From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans.

  Maurice Cowling

  War, Fighting, Views

  Maurice Cowling (1990). “Mill and Liberalism”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been about to attack the Russians, and even more ill-contrived that, when Hitler did attack the Russians, he had already defeated the French army. What I'm saying is that the war shouldn't have been started in September 1939...from the point of view of Britain, the war was really not a good thing and I would regard it as, in effect, a defeat.

  Maurice Cowling

  War, Army, Government

  "Singular Encounters" by Naim Attallah, Quartet Books, (p. 144), 1990.

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• The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Country, Taken, Views

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view.

  John Wayne

  Jesus, Wings, Views

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.16, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Motivational, Work, Views

  Speech delivered at Scottish Church College, Kolkata, December 7, 1935.

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• Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.

  Flora Thompson

  Regret, Past, Views

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. August Chapter, 1986.

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• One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say "Well, I'm now going to have three months where I'm just going to hang out and be with the family".

  Hugo Weaving

  Views, Three, Months

  The Sun Herald Interview, August 06, 2000.

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• If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical, and poetic realm in which the pictorial image functioned as an extension of the playwright's themes and structures (a metanarrative), then postmodern design is a dissonant reminder that no single point of view can predominate, even within a single image.

  Arnold Aronson

  Views, Design, World

  Arnold Aronson (2005). “Looking Into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography”, p.14, University of Michigan Press

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