Quotes About Perspective

You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

I'm not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn't care less about their opinion.

I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis.

Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either.

Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

There's drama in everything. That's why I love movies. Like Welcome to the Dollhouse, I'm a 350-pound black man, and I could understand what it was like to be a little white girl.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.

Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.