Quotes About Perspective

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

Het schenden van grenzen heeft iets opwindends. Hij herinnerde zich de blik van jonge Duitse soldaten op journaalfilms.

Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

People always think something's all true.

There isn't anyone anywhere that isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know—listen to me, now—don't you know who that Fat Lady really is?… Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

In June, 1957, Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Communist Party boss, was interviewed before a nation-wide American television audience. With calm assurance he stated: ". . . I can prophesy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism. And please do not be afraid of that. Your grandchildren will not understand how their grandparents did not understand the progressive nature of a socialist society.

If we think effectively and productively about growing older, the odds are good that we'll never have to grow old.

It's easier to gossip than to think, easier to rant than to reason, easier to be confirmed in our prejudices than to listen to another person's point of view. And

I have no right to argue with you because I haven't walked in your shoes, nor do I have your feet.

The modern liberals, on the other hand, say that Jesus is God not because they think high of Jesus, but because they think desperately low of God.

I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.

Every once in a while, you are on the set and you look at it from the outside and you are like, "This is ridiculous."

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

I wish...I wish I were dead..." And what use would that be to anyone?

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.