Quotes About Perspective

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.

For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

Old creature with a sore leg (reference to Elizabeth I- he was incorrectly told she limped because of a varicose vein)

The newspaper fits the readers program while the listener must fit the broadcasters program.

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

How wrong people always were when they said: "It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way." No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

It's all very well going around thinking you're a cowboy, until you run into somebody who thinks he's an Indian.

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but...

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody else got tired of her shit

Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today. That's why they don't get linen

I happen to like being sad over nothing at all. I find it suits me. (Ewan) A smile would suit you better. My mother always says that a smile is dressing for the face. (Nora) And I always say the face, much like the body, is best left naked. (Ewan)

They're true, aren't they? (Lorelei) I guess it depends on whom you ask. What I've learned over the years is that truth is never so easy. And every person sees a different reality. (Jack)

Did you call me a pig? (Stryder) I called you a pigheaded boar. (Zenobia) Isn't that redundant? (Stryder)

She had been mistaken - she was only the center to herself, as always, and a small player playing her part in someone else's story.