Quotes about Perspective

The whole of life did not consist in going to bed with a woman, he thought, returning to Scott and Balzac, to the English novel and the French novel.

Have you any notion of how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

she] might have been a shell, and his words water rubbing against her ears, as water rubs a shell on the edge of a rock.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. Without that power probably the earth would still be swamp and jungle. The glories of all our wars would be unknown.

That man, she thought, her anger rising in her, never gave; that man took.

That she had grown older? Would he say that, or would she see him thinking when he came back, that she had grown older?

Heavenly Father, you must think us such silly creatures, always worrying about tomorrow and letting today slip by.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

This idea that it's intolerant to object to anyone else's position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else's point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.