Quotes About Perspective

If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others like?

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

History should be written as philosophy.

They said everything outside killed, so I thought nothing did.

How can I tell her to be glad she's alive, when she knows she'll never walk on the desert again, or find me a diamond for some patron's earring, never gentle another horse, never make love?" "I don't know," Smoke said. "But if you and Alex see her life as a tragedy, that's what it will be.

In the end, how much distance lies between the truth and what we believe to be true? Between the things we feel at one time and the things we end up doing?

We never truly forget the things that have passed out of our lives. We merely move further away from them in time, until they become either less important than they actually were or more profound than we might have ever imagined. Had

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

John Lennon dijo que la vida es lo que sucede mientras hacemos otros planes.

Come on, Alan, you want me to believe you've been asleep for eight years? Nobody's that depressed.

Oh, that's just great, Alan. You come into my head, you start calling me "we," when I sleep at night you're driving around in my truck, and you think it's a bad idea to mess with other people's lives?

It was the first time in a long while that I thought about how small a dog I was as Max. It did not seem right that a dog should be the same size as a duck.

I left out the part about being beaten up by a twenty-pound goose.

Bad dog, Bailey," the boy said crossly. I was astounded. Bad dog? Me? They had accidentally locked me in the garage and forgotten about me and left me there all day, but I was willing to forgive them. Why were they scowling like that and shaking their fingers at me?

though this dog, like so many others in this place, was gigantic. That's when it occurred to me: it wasn't that the people and the dogs were huge; it was that I was little. I was a tiny little dog! I had met tiny dogs in my life, of course. But I had never before considered that I might be one—I had always been large, because people sometimes need the protection a large dog affords them.

A woman drove me to drink, and I'll be a son-of-a-gun but I never even wrote to thank her.

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?

Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.

A company should never outsource its eyes. There is simply no substitute for seeing for yourself. Great artists don't paint from other people's descriptions or even from photographs; they like to see the subject for themselves. The same is true for great strategists.

Almost anything can be found in a book.

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.