Quotes About Perspective

I made a note to quit trying to understand women and start trying to understand men.

one of my favorite rules is never to let a woman start an argument about what she said or what I said. You

Must I again remind you, Archie, of the reaction you would have got if you had asked Velasquez to explain why Aesop's hand was resting inside his robe instead of hanging by his side? Must I again demonstrate that while it is permissible to request the scientist to lead you back over his footprints, a similar request of the artist is nonsense, since he, like the lark or the eagle, has made none? Do you need to be told again that I am an artist?

Archie.' 'Yes, sir.' 'Do I ever intrude in your private affairs?' 'Yes, sir. Frequently. But you think you don't, so go right ahead.

pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

Some day, Archie, I shall be constrained Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but no. I cannot remake the universe, and must therefore put up with this one. What is, is, including you." He

You are headstrong and I am magisterial. Our tolerance of each other is a constantly recurring miracle.

He smacked his lips, tasting the fifth brand, and holding up the glass looked through the amber at the light. "This is a pleasant surprise, Archie. I would not have believed it. That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. So far, none of this is sewage.

Don't overdo it. There are numerous layers of honesty, and the deepest should not have a monopoly.

A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

That of course is the advantage of being a pessimist; a pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

Because an argument is used hypocritically, it does not necessarily follow that it is untrue.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

In fact, we have no firm notion of how it felt to exist in Rome, Palestine, or Asia Minor some two thousand years ago--burdened with all the assumptions and hopes of our past lives; then confronted in words by the flaming demands of a recently dead, maybe resurrected Jew named Jesus with a ravenous will to change us and the Earth.

The way my life goes, I can't tell if there are pits in my cherries or cherries among my pits, philosophically speaking.

At some point you have to take responsibility for who you are and where you are and being able to listen to other points of view, whichever side of the tracks you're on.

Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music - and then, through that, American history.

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

Rachael could find no solace in other people's tales of woe. Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.

On the other side, apartment blocks—intact except for the fronts, which had been completely blown off, revealing the rooms and furniture within—stood like giant doll's houses.

Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.

Do you believe the world is for you or against you?

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

Life is simple. Your life is made up of only two kinds of things – positive things and negative things.