Quotes About Perspective

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don't look at its manifestation.

And just because someone doesn't understand doesn't mean they don't want to.

You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved.

Everything that you want is not very important. Everything that was given to you without any want is very important.

Appreciate what you have to get more of what you want.

If you want to change situation, first change your thoughts and perceptions.

If you want to see beauty, look with love and appreciation and you will find it.

People will say, "there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell.

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

I am at war with the obvious.

This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left