Quotes About Perspective

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

The good news doesn't make any sense unless you know what the bad news is first, and the bad news goes pretty deep.

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

To me, feeling good about yourself as you get older is all about your attitude - if you think you're old, you'll feel old.

I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.

What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don't think I could avoid not coming out of there with a pretty good sense of humor.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.