Quotes About Perspective

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

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

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.

You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

Many Continentals tink life is a game; the English think cricet is a game.

There is nothing personal in the fact that they ignore you: they are simply Miltonists. All English shop assistants are Miltonists. A Miltonist firmly believes that 'they also serve who only stand and wait.

There were no aisles, so to get to the empty cot I had to climb over other senators. The first was Ted Kennedy. He was a big man, and at that moment he looked to me like Mount Everest.

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume it is true and try to imagine what it might be true of.

Oh, so Mother Nature needs a favour? Well maybe She should have thought of that when She was besetting us with droughts and floods and poisonous snakes. Nature started the fight for survival and now She wants to quit because She's losing? Well I say 'Hard Chesse!

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.

For the people of that flowAre new, the oldNew to age as the youngTo youth

I know that no one would live outThirty years, fifty years if the world were endingWith his life.

Boy's Room" A friend saw the rooms Of Keats and Shelley At the lake, and saw 'they were just Boys' rooms' and was moved By that. And indeed a poet's room Is a boy's room And I suppose that women know it. Perhaps the unbeautiful banker Is exciting to a woman, a man Not a boy gasping For breath over a girl's body

I think always about the thing in which we are. Among the things in it is force, power. It is not enough to say that we like it or that we do not like it. It is here, we must first talk about it. We are not shoppers—or we are not first of all shoppers; it is not enough to say that we like or we do not like—

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.