Quotes About Perspective

And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

I'm the first one in line to go watch "Spider-Man," but there's definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that makes me feel good about life.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.

No man can prophesy with another's parable.

It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.

Abundance is a state, not a quantity. Idea of shortage is man-made.

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.