Quotes About Perspective

Michael Wolff

It was, said Walsh, "like trying to figure out what a child wants.

Michael Wolff

he had no interest in personnel problems, since they put the emphasis on other people.

Trump saw the world through the filter of other people's weaknesses.

he thought emotionally, not strategically.

Expertise was the last refuge of liberals, ever defeated by the big picture.

War does not determine who is right. War determines who is left.

this is the problem with photographs. After a while, you can't remember if you're recalling the actual memory or the memory of the photograph. Or perhaps the photograph is the only reason you remember that moment. (p.85)

Yet the sameness is also a trap. It's part of the narrowing of your world, the tunnel vision of age. When something different happens to you, it's hard to see it as a good thing. Which means you can't always recognize a perfect moment or get yourself to a place where one can happen. Or sometimes perfect moments happen and you don't even realize it. That is why you need to travel.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold…. The same reason that makes us bicker with a neighbor creates a war between princes.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

I quote others only to better express myself.

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice...for we have no other criterion of reason than the example and idea of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.