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Quotes About Perspective

There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.
~ Barnes Wallis
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
~ Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
~ Homer
Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.
~ Socrates
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.
~ Steve Jobs
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
~ Baltasar Gracian
If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too.
~ Anna Quindlen
It's important to have women in leadership positions, because our experiences are different from those of the men we serve with and that helps us identify problems we can fix.
~ Tammy Duckworth
And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow.
~ Dennis Miller
If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.
~ Stanislaw Lem
When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.
~ Thiruvalluvar
If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?
~ Ken Robinson
A tiny fly can choke a big man.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
~ F. H. Bradley
The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?
~ Zhuangzi
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
~ Honore de Balzac
When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
~ Joseph Stalin
By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?
~ Stella Gibbons
Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.
~ Demetri Martin
It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.
~ Maurice Nicoll
Where the mind goes, the man follows.
~ Joyce Meyer
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
~ Dante Alighieri
I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
~ Will Durant