Quotes About Perspective

All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill." ? Mike Royko

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

If we have the data, let's look at the data. If all we have are opinions, let's just go with mine.

She could feel the emotional wedge between him and his father. It must be very hard for them to work together, she thought. Maybe she just didn't understand the ways of the super wealthy.

a broken toy an orphan would likely toss aside meant more than all the expensive gifts in the world.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

Writers don't live their lives. They are simply making a report on it.

If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.

Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.

if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking and be able to put oneself in their place.

I'd thought I'd felt like shit that day, but really I'd barely even entered the intestine.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

If all who love one another were of the same opinion, living would be monotonous, and conversation flabby. So cheer up. You are content. All me to be.

I am not proposing to ask you to see it from my point of view. You cannot, no matter how willing you are to try. No two people ever see life from the same angle. There is a law which decrees that two objects may not occupy the same space at the same time - result: two people cannot see things from the same point of view, and the slightest difference in angle changes the thing seen.

Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. Right now you and Jeremy might get along fine, but in a few years he'll think of himself as a man but you'll probably still be a boy to him. And if he feels that way, he'll turn on you in a minute.

To be human is to be in a story.

It was always just a question of time, and time meant so much to us, who were so anxious to get away, and so little to them.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

2. Theology is necessary because truth and experience are related. While some would deny or at least question this connection, in the long run the truth will affect our experience. A person who falls from the tenth story of a building may shout while passing each window on the way down, "I'm still doing fine," and may mean it sincerely, but eventually the facts of the matter will catch up with the person's experience.

Theology is necessary because truth and experience are related. While some would deny or at least question this connection, in the long run the truth will affect our experience. A person who falls from the tenth story of a building may shout while passing each window on the way down, "I'm still doing fine," and may mean it sincerely, but eventually the facts of the matter will catch up with the person's experience.

Our humanity is not a standard by which we are to measure his. His humanity, true and unadulterated, is the standard by which we are to be measured.

You cannot be sure that you are right, unless you understand the arguments against your view better than your opponents do. by Milton Friedman (p.10)