Quotes About Perspective

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

That's the funny thing about time. It is only in looking back that it's easy to connect the dots. To see exactly why everything needed to happen the way that it did.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.

Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly, ideas and information across the globe. But globalisation is also a view of the world - it is an opinion about man and why men are on the world.

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.

Every time something bad happens to me, I don't ask the question, 'Why did it happen to me?' The question I ask is, 'Why did it happen for me?'

I thought all my life that optimists and pessimists pass away the same way, so why be a pessimist?

Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

Everyone goes through things; everyone has a story. That's why strangers are so interesting. I don't find a single human being boring, man.

My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?

I'm still friends with the girls I grew up with, and they're all on their second child. They're all like, 'Don't be in your 40s by the time you have kids,' and I'm like, 'Why not? There's nothing wrong with that.'

I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?