Quotes About Perspective

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

History is the devil's scripture.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

Facts you can bend. Memories are much stronger things.

History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

pity them. Matthew 19:24.

I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.

History is something that never happened written by a man who wasn't there.

No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

Sometimes, when I'm feeling down because nothing seems to be going right, I like to take a home pregnancy test. Then I can say, 'Hey, at least I'm not pregnant.'

Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.

I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.

Sometimes home is full of new possibilities, you just have to look or change how you look.

I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.

Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.