Quotes About Perspective

IF YOU ARE a parent, you know the following to be true: Even though your child has grown into adulthood, you never see the man or the woman; you see only the little boy or the little girl.

He knows things don't happen in order, like past, present, and future.

How do you get mad at a man who speaks in Petrarchan sonnets?

At a certain time in your life, you accept the fact that lunacy comes in many forms.

I won't try to argue with your experience and what you've shaped out of it. But the world isn't a jail. We just make our own sometimes. Does that make any sense to you?

They see what they need to see. Black folk cain't be choicy. They see what they gots to see.

What might be considered irrational, abnormal, aberrant, ludicrous, illogical, bizarre, schizoid, or schizophrenic to earth people (which is what AAs call nonalcoholics) is usually considered fairly normal by AA members.

Nothing wrong with being crazy. It gives you a more interesting view.

This is a lovely car. You drive it and suddenly it's 1965. What a wonderful time that was, just before everything started to change," she said. "Who could argue, Lila?" I said. Unless you were black or spent '65 in Vietnam, I thought as they drove away.

one of the basic tenets of A.A.—that there is no possession more valuable than a sober sunrise, and any drunk who demands more out of life than that will probably

Are the very rich very different from you and me? What an absurdity. How about this as a better question: In what way are they similar to us?

While many a Georgian condemned the Yankees for ravaging the countryside, it should be noted that the Confederates often treated Southerners just as badly, if not worse. Major

It wasn't that I was tired of life, really - just my own. Other people's lives seemed perfectly worthwhile, and only the logistical difficultly of assuming them and the likelihood of being caught kept me from concocting some sort of swap.

If you think the '80s were dumber than the '70s, either you weren't there or you weren't paying attention.

She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.

It's always something when you let other people in your world.

In fourteen hundred and ninety-three, Columbus stole all he could see.

The veneration in which some people hold the gods says more about those people than about the gods

To a snail, a duck is a vengeful god.

Cynicism is simply realism with a veneer of irony.

Teller stared up at him. What transforms a man into a monster, Tarkin? Monster? That's a point of view, is it not? I will say this much: This place, this plateau is what made me.

She preferred to remain at a distance, to enjoy this child as she seemed, rather than as she was.

The central task for leaders is inspiring a shared vision, not selling their personal view of the world. You need to imagine the end result and be able to communicate your vision such that your constituents find a way to achieve their hopes and dreams while achieving that result.

James M. McPherson