Quotes About Perspective

My ex-wife did once accuse me of treating my own needs as if they were instructions and everyone else's needs as impediments.

What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas.

Barbarians are no more marvelous to us than we are to them, nor for better cause," Montaigne wrote. "Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice," Montaigne observed

History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence.

Vietnamese men, women, and children were dying, starving, being shot, bombed, burned, and napalmed. American soldiers were being shipped home in boxes, coffins, and bags. And the U.S. government was paying an Upper West Side Freudian analyst to explain that the Vietnamese, as a people, had Oedipal issues.

that people so often believe themselves to be right is no proof that they are.

Remember that very few stories are of great interest without the rustle of a skirt.

To study the past is to unlock the prison of the present.

Maybe when she'd been eighteen it was a quality she might have laughed at, but at twenty-eight, dependability had turned into something of an aphrodisiac.

For every wizened female tortoise there's a male tortoise who thinks she's irresistible.

It's just that we wear rose-coloured spectacles when we return here [to Oxford] – we are dazzled by the foolish idealism of our youthful years.

Two of my fav pieces of wisdom from Phoebe: - Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible. - Remember, it's always better to be the smartass rather than the dumbass.

Don't take life too seriously. After all none of us are getting out alive anyway.

Accept that some days you're the bug, and some days you're going to be the windshield.

After all, when I was in school, I thought I had a good time. It was only after I graduated and got out into the worlf that I realized how miserable I'd acutally been.

A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are.

I am writing this because they cannot.

linear narrative was not doing a very good job representing life as I experienced it,

I like it when art presents a paradigm shift, when it forces me to confront my assumptions, when it asks, "Why this way and not another way?

WHEN IT WAS DECIDED (When was that again, and by whom?) that we were all supposed to choose between fiction and nonfiction, what was not taken into account was that for some of us truth can never be an absolute, that there can (at best) be only less true and more true and sometimes those two collapse inside each other like aTurducken.

My point is, you can have everything and still not have enough.

The dead walk into poems all the time Nobody complains

Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat. "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.