Quotes About Perspective

You know you're getting old when people tell you how good you look.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it's his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - that's different; it makes it worthwhile then.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

PEOPLE SEARCH relentlessly for a "city of happiness"—not realizing that it could only be found in a "state of mind." —RABBI AVRAHAM PAM (1913–2001)

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

We can never fully understand the hearts and minds of people . . . unless we can speak directly to them in their own language so that the implications, not just the words, come through clearly.

If you begin with God, your enemies grow small. If you begin with enemy, you may never reach God. If you begin with Him, the problems begin to dwindle; if you begin with the problems, you never get through to God. "Selah"—think of that, and apply it to your life in your adversity and testing.

Katie is my hero. She has taken on challages in her life that I'm not sure I could ever come close to realizing for myself. I admire her greatly. And I say this,not because I'm her father,but because it's true. But being her father may have just a small bit to do with it

It was the Cheshire Cat who had said to Alice, "I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.

Everything looked wonderful until I noticed the anchovies. "Really?" I said. "Hairy little fish?" "It's not a real Caesar salad without anchovies." "I appreciate hairy dogs; I don't appreciate hairy fish.

It almost feels like I've suffered in order to be able to see what I otherwise wouldn't.

He understood that things appear different in daytime and nighttime, even though they are the same.

Satchell Paige once posed the question, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Agonies are one of my changes of garments; I do not ask the wounded person how he feels...I myself become the wounded person.

I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.