Quotes About Perspective

So what? German or French, friend or enemy, he's first and foremost a man and I'm a woman. He's good to me, kind, attentive. . .that's good enough for me. I'm not looking for anything else. Our lives are complicated enough with all these wars and bombings. Between a man and a woman, none of that's important. I couldn't care less if the man I fancy is English or black - I'd still offer myself to him if I got the opportunity.

History is not about the past; it is about arguments we have about the past. And because it is about arguments that we have, it is about us.

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.

It ain't necessarily so—The things that you're liableTo read in the Bible—It ain't necessarily so.

I got plenty of nothin',And nothin's plenty for me.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.

Accept the fact that this is a man's world and learn how to play the game gracefully, my sweet.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

For God's sake, even her parents no longer read Dostoyevsky--haven't they suffered enough, they would say; after thirty years of communism, didn't they DESERVE Danielle Steele?

When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.

why do you think that?

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

It's hard to know what's right when everyone thinks you're wrong.

I don't believe God will punish you for looking differently at the pattern of life. God is good, it's man who is evil. - Ware

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

Albert Einstein said that a problem cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created it.

A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied.

A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.

A turkey never voted for an early Christmas.

An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth.

On the day I learned of Vati's death, my outlook on life changed profoundly. I had discovered that a good day could never be trusted to remain good, indeed, a good day would inevitably lead to disaster, and I must always be prepared for the worst. The glass was now half empty.

Sometimes there are mirrors that make me look like an old woman. That's the way it's going to be thirty years from now.