Quotes about Perspective

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

You stand in a puddle when I would give you an ocean...

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

One forgets so quickly one's own youth…

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name?

All good novelists have bad memories.

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory...

Henry was living in a terrible insecurity. To that extent his plight was worse than mine. I had the security of possessing nothing.

he forgot for the while what experience had taught him-that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

It had been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action—even an opinion is a kind of action.