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Quotes About Perspective

There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it.
~ Michael Collins
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
~ Jackie Kennedy
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
~ William Temple
You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
~ William Hazlitt
Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.
~ Kathy Lette
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
~ Richard Harding Davis
I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.
~ Leona Lewis
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
~ Josh Billings
Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.
~ Mark Russell
As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.
~ Elena Ferrante
The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.
~ Evan Esar
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
~ Louis Kahn
Sometimes people tell me I'm a good guy. Thank God, I'd probably be a terrible woman
~ Cameron Monaghan
In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
For the people who believe, you don't have to explain, and for the people who don't believe, no explanation is good enough.
~ Jeff Jarrett
Education is the key. With a really good education, you have a much broader view of the world. Well-educated people can seek help for themselves. They can help others.
~ Laura Bush
You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.
~ Rick Yancey
Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.
~ Rob Pike
Who learns most from a good book is the author.
~ Jose Bergamin
I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.
~ Stanley Fish
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche