Quotes About Perspective

We once stood on the shoulders of Giants in humility. We now piggyback on Dwarfs in arrogance.

I've yet to hear of a deathbed conversion to atheism

The content of the glass is far more important than whether it is half full or half empty

Do clocks tell the time or does time tell the clocks?

When you take God out of the picture you are left without a frame

Very rarely to do you hear of death bed conversions to atheism

When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.

There are never any victims of the truth, unless you believe truth to be subjective, then of course, the truth has nothing but victims.

I don't believe in Atheists but would never deny their existence

If your views don't change over time it means you're fixated on an hypnotic landscape. Move on. There is more to see.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides," Henri Frédéric Amiel

Never, under any circumstances, argue with a tired woman. She is always right.

Hamet, Seid, and Abdallah were stung by the irony that on the wild desert, where people had virtually nothing, they shared freely, but here, where resources were comparatively abundant, no one would offer them so much as a drink.

In Lincoln's day, Riley's account also spoke to a burning issue: the troubling institution of slavery. Inverting the American paradigm, it provided a useful perspective and helped expose the brutality of that abysmal practice. In our time, when one of the great challenges we face is to find common ground for Muslims, Christians, and Jews, the plight of the crew of the Commerce achieves a new relevance. It

Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.

It's not always easy to see which end is up.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

If your local team is Golden State and they win three straight, it might mean that the Warriors at least may be getting better than their typical twenty-win season. If your local team is the Lakers, a three-game win streak is ho-hum.

If you make every game a life-and-death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.