Quotes About Perspective

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

Men, in general, are but great children.

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.

I recognize as a man there's a lot of things that I don't have to think about. But I'm thinking about them now.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.

My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are different versions of him, four different versions.

People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is, that's this, or this, there's that.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.