Famous quotes containing the words view and/or states:
“The view is fine from fifty,
Experienced climbers say....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“By intervening in the Vietnamese struggle the United States was attempting to fit its global strategies into a world of hillocks and hamlets, to reduce its majestic concerns for the containment of communism and the security of the Free World to a dimension where governments rose and fell as a result of arguments between two colonels’ wives.”
—Frances Fitzgerald (b. 1940)