Quotes About Perspective

Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.

People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had, she said quietly, staring into the embers. they don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

I never liked telling war stories. Some men love to tell them. Hell, some men need to. They need to convince themselves that the war is over. But I'm not one of them.

As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.

...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.

He who is absolutely right is absolutely wrong

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.

And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.

Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.

some smart alecs of those days after World War I used to say: "The French fought for liberty, the British fought to control the seas, but the Americans fought for souvenirs.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it.

The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.

'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

When I hear women talking about how their wedding is going to be/was the best day of their life, I can't help but think, You just haven't taken enough MDMA in a field at 3 a.m., love.

It is true, that all married men have their own way, but the trouble is they don't all have their own way of having it.

I didn't have a big fat Greek wedding, but I have a lot of fat Greek friends.

My wife Staci made me go to a wedding last weekend...If it weren't for her, I'd be happy.