2,489 Quotes About Views

You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and- and if you're lucky, next week.

I'm not saying that George W. Bush did everything right. But even if you take a skeptical view of his Iraq war, [Barack] Obama made the more serious error of withdrawing his troops from Iraq early.

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.

In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule. We managed to get by without this absolutist system for 1,000 years. The problems began in the 11th century, when the popes asserted their claim to absolute control over the Church.

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.