Perspectives Point Of View Quotes

#1. We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#2. Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

Jessamyn West

#3. Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they still need to believe and yet still be able to think of themselves as Christians.

Stanley Hauerwas

#4. A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life.

Lord Chesterfield

#5. I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

Juan Enriquez

#6. Don't let today's fears consume you; they will cripple your tomorrow.

Amanda Strong

#7. One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. The first thing I noticed was the gun in his hands, and it wasn't the sort of gun a beginner carries around with him. A big dull black German Mauser 7.63. One of those economical guns; the bullet goes clear through three people at once.

Alistair MacLean

#9. Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it. Henri Matisse

Volkmar Essers

#10. You can flip a coin to change its face, but it remains the same coin.

DaShanne Stokes

#11. I realized early on in writing the book that it needed to be from a family point of view, and that nobody outside the family would weigh in. And then well into writing it, the question became how to balance the perspectives; how to switch between chapters.

Mary Kay Zuravleff

#12. God is a being than which nothing greater can be conceived.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#13. No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.

Charles R. Swindoll