Quotes About Perspective

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

I hope they understand that I really understand That they don't understand

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

So having a little more of an awareness of what's going on in the rest of the world I think is what many Canadians would hope for Americans.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope

Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

Vision is seeing visibly the light of hope within the range of the eyesight.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

I never saw a purple cow; I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.