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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew. -- Ibrahim Babangida
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space. -- Ruth St. Denis
To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria. -- Ibrahim Babangida
My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas. -- Ezra Stoller
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. -- Edmund Burke
Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that. -- Bill Gates
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. -- Helmut Walcha
Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds -- Eglantyne Jebb
Life is like an old-time rail journey--delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. -- Jenkin Lloyd Jones
[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again. -- Alexander McCall Smith
To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware. -- Garet Garrett
The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists. -- Nelson Mandela
Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system - it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes. -- Joel Spolsky
I think the mirror should be tilted slightly upward when it's reflecting life -- toward the cheerful, the tender, the compassionate, the brave, the funny, the encouraging, all those things -- and not tilted down to the gutter part of the time, into the troubled vistas of conflict. -- Greer Garson
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. -- Malcolm X
How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it. -- Alexander Shulgin
Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes. -- Hal Borland
I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and chiggers in the summer. -- Ellen Gilchrist
Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless. -- Richard Blumenthal
Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top. -- Jim Goetz
In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture. -- Stephen Hunter
It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers. -- Naomi Wolf
I like to keep some coloring tools around to draw vistas. -- Queen Latifah
I was raised with a sense of democratic vistas and egalitarianism. -- Anne Waldman
The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life. -- Winston Churchill
At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty. -- Mason Cooley
There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield. -- Lewis Howard Latimer
Vision encompasses vast vistas outside the realm of the predictable, the safe, the expected. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings. -- Leigh Mitchell Hodges
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. -- Ansel Adams
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up. -- Margaret Halsey
Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own. -- Roger Zelazny
[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science. -- Rosa Luxemburg
I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Italy doesn't need American football. For what? I've been. Wine, women, song, shopping, unbelievable vistas and landscapes ... Do they need Titans vs. Panthers? Uh, no. -- Michael Wilbon
They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation. -- Agnes Repplier
Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age. -- H. P. Lovecraft
It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the things they didn't have a chance or the time to do. -- Liu Dan
I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts are examined from a fresh point of view. -- Lancelot Law Whyte
The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay], has shown the potential for opening new vistas in science and medicine -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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