Quotes of: Point-of-view Keyword

When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try...

Arne Glimcher

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

The Architecture of Community

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

Atlas Shrugged

Do not view the Lord as your temporary solution; see Him as your eternal Savior.

Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms

Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a ‘dualistic’ view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.

The Restful Mind

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Rights of Man

To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time.

Rapture Fever: Why Dispensationalism Is Paralyzed

He Looked down at her gravely. "In many ways, we are the most perfect match. We see each other as we are, but neither of us views the other as broken.

The Raven

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

The Salmon of Doubt

There’s an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another’s degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

Stormed Fortress

Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.

Seeker

We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.

Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry

Turnstall's view of what men could and couldn't do was sometimes odd. Our old parter Goodwin and I agreed that there was no manly or unwomanly, only what you chose to do.

Mastiff

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

The Misanthrope

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.

Obedience to Authority

Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.

The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

The city of San Francisco engulfed their view through the front windshield. The dazzling light of the late morning sun transformed every glass and metal surface into a silvery mirage.

Luisa Across the Bay

Mine is the only view that appropriately combines the end-time messianic expectations of the Jews with Christian scripture.

The Little Book of Revelation: The First Coming of Jesus at the End of Days

No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try.

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