Quotes About Perspective

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it -- but there is.

I forced myself to think rationally, something that is conveniently omitted from the upbringing of us women (otherwise my God how we would change the world!)

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

[To Dr. Johnson:] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

We are not to judge of the feelings of others by what we might feel if in their place. However dark the habitation of the mole to our eyes, yet the animal itself finds the apartment sufficiently lightsome.

There are a hundred faults in this Thing and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find.

It has been a thousand times observed, and I must observe it once more, that the hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. In the first case we cook the dish to our own appetite; in the latter nature cooks it for us.

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

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

A man visits a psychiatrist and tells him that his wife thinks she is a chicken. The psychiatrist asks why the man does not leave her, to which the man replies, 'I need the eggs.' That pretty much sums up all the marriages that I have ever known: each person needs the other's madness.

Don't ask questions. 2. Learn from them as the experts on their disability. 3. Always agree with everything they say, never interrupting them.

Awe and respect are two different things.

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person's eyes.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

You transcend your own self through acting out someone else's life.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.