Quotes About Perspective

Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn't realize that "test" is normally a bad thing.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left.

There's something scary, knowing that in Florida, someone can pick you up in a car and drive you to 50 states. Back home, it's like, 'Girl, you're 15 minutes away.'

If you can identify humor in problems then you will have less difficulties in solving them... Most importantly, "you should be able to laugh on yourself".

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often.

We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.

I used her and she used me, but neither one cared, we were getting our share.

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

I'm lucky I'm a comedian, 'cause otherwise my life would just be a series of undocumented low points.

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.