Quotes About Perspective

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

Man, sometimes God really sucks.

I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.

Never for one minute am I like, 'My husband, the white man, and our biracial children.' I never think about it.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.

We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

A black man, but I feel so blue. So I smoke green and purple to my dreams come true. And my eyes turn red, the sky turns grey.

I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own?" "Lord Paen said compliment her, he did not say we had to be creative about it," the second man pointed out with a shrug

Think with the big head, man! Think with the big head!

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.