#view

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#counseled #enjoy #field #i #interviewed

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

— Desmond Morris

#ape #fallen #fellow #fellow man #i

[T]o give the children a sense of magic. Nobody attends to this enough. They give them too much realism. They can see it all on the box, they can see frightful things there. But they’re not being given a world to escape to … the world of the imagination. Children must have an escape line somewhere. ↗

— Nicholas Stuart Gray

#imagination

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last. ↗

— George Murray

#been #books #change #deliberate #different

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view. ↗

— Fridtjof Nansen

#always #another #beyond #blocks #disappointments

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews. ↗

— Pola Negri

#box #box office #course #excellent #exceptions

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#available #church #culture #editorials #general

An outsider's point of view is always handy. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#handy #outsider #point #point of view #view

Don’t fall so madly in love with the night that you lose your way. ↗

— Anne Rice

#love

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#any #attack #been #conduct #down