Quotes About Perspective

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that.

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

For every man with a baseball story - a memory of a moment at the plate or in the field - there is a woman with a couldn't-play-baseball story.

King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

A man needs enough...no less, no more.

A homeless man standing at the off-ramp: the question in these moments isn't whether Jesus is in Him, but in me.

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

Welcome to Suckersville, man.

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.