Quotes About Perspective

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Whatever bro, tell it to the whales

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

Lorena liked it. "I'd say 'awesome,' but we're not supposed to," she said. "Not me," said Sam. "Now that I know how real butter is made, I'll never eat it again." "Don't worry," said Amy, "this is not the same as what you buy in the store." "I think it's better because we made it ourselves," said Allison.

After walking on rocks in these shoes all week, I really miss good roads," said Amanda. "One thing I like a lot less here is the bugs," said Hilary. "Wait a minute," said Catherine, "We have the same bugs now, too." "Yeah," Hilary answered, "but they didn't have anything to kill them with back then.

You can become grateful for all the small miracles in our lives that many humans on this planet do not share.

Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.

He mounted the stairs. "You're a romantic, Daisy. It's not that I think I'm so irresistible—God knows, I don't—but over the years it's been my observation that the minute any man puts a red flag in front of a woman, she changes it in her mind to a green one.

Chip, I know you don't understand this, but I'd take it as a personal favor if you'd stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers.

I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.

I'm not beautiful. My mother—" "I know. Your mother was a knockout, and you're paper bag ugly... Sorry to upset all those cherished illusions of yours, but I don't see it your way." "That's because you didn't know her." "Could your mother have led tiger back into its cage?" "Maybe not that, but she was very good with men. They'd do anything for her." "This man will do anything for you.

When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

There's nothing more boring than listening to successful adults whine about how mistreated they were as children, is there?

Even though she was jobless, penniless, and homeless, he was the needy one.

Lani regarded smudged mascara as a worse catastrophe than nuclear holocaust.

You're so used to feeling superior that you've forgotten there are people who might know something you don't.

Tenía la mala costumbre de asumir lo que otras personas harían o lo que haría ella en su lugar.

Facts don't change. How we see them does.

El amor no existe para mí. —Existe para todo el mundo.

I'm basically a guy," her friend Rachel had once said. I don't need emotional attachment. I just want to get off. Annie wanted to be a guy, too.