Quotes About Perspective

Things do not have to last forever to be good, and when they end, it is not always proof that one's principles were wrong.

I don't know how you feel about old age, but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Some people might say, "Who would want to be 90?" And I say, Anyone who is 89.

Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance.

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

and I'm thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that ain't bad for eleven.

It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.

Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him. 'This is your real life, Al,' he said, 'Don't start living in the future. That's like gulping down a piece of fudge cake and then asking yourself, 'Where'd it go?' You're missing the moment.

Every reading is a misreading.

getting older is not a gift. But we had better make it one or be left with the knowledge that we have been ungrateful for life itself.

Before you laugh at someone's misfortune, have a moment to walk in their shoes. Now, you've LOL-ed and you have their shoes.

Religions are like farts. Yours is good, but everyone else's stinks.

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

If you grow up between cultures, if you get accustomed to traveling, it's easy to find yourself always on the outside of things, looking in. This can be ideal for a writer—or a spy; you've always got, analytically, a ticket out.

greatest surprises I have encountered has been that the people who seem wisest about the necessity of placing limits on the newest technologies are, often, precisely the ones who helped develop those technologies, which have bulldozed over so many of the limits of old. The very people, in short, who have worked to speed up the world are the same ones most sensitive to the virtue of slowing down.

Everywhere you turned, everything was happening, and everything that was happening took you away from all abstraction and into something human, where answers weren't so easy.

There's one problem with California." I wasn't eager to listen, but the sentence had a promising beginning. "It has no understanding of evil.

So much of our lives takes place in our heads - in memory or imagination, in speculation or interpretation - that sometimes I feel that I can change my life by changing the way I look at it.

To Marcel Duchamp's blithe "There is no solution, because there is no problem," the Japanese visual artist Shigeko Kubota replied, "There is no problem, because there is no solution.

All his novels are unreliable gospels for those who can't be sure of a thing.

It wasn't the country, the girl, the teacher who let us down; it was our judgment, and whatever led us to expect too much of the country, the girl or the teacher in the first place. That was why it became harder and harder to condemn anyone: wouldn't God himself, faced with a wounded murderer, feel somewhat at a loss?

there was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim." He