Quotes About Perspective

The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.

I don't know that I ever did see Star Wars as any different. I was certainly proud that I did it.

You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world... And something sooner or later has to give.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle.

I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.

We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.

But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.