Quotes about Perspective
Black: I see a different truth. Settin right across the table from me. White: Which is? Black: That you must love your brother or die.
— Cormac McCarthy
My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you. Yessir.
— Cormac McCarthy
Everyone is born with the faculty to see the miraculous. You have to choose not to.
— Cormac McCarthy
Did I kill a lot of people? I been asked that question a few times. But never before by a man. I told this one girl I was seeing that yes I had killed a bunch of gooks but that I hadnt eaten any of them.
— Cormac McCarthy
The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.
— Craig Groeschel
When we look at other people comparatively and competitively, we're not seeing them as our brothers and sisters. We're not loving them more than we love ourselves, and we we're definitely not seeing them as God sees them.
— Craig Groeschel
I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.
— Craig Keener
One can never satisfy a closed mind.
— Craig Keener
Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
— DH Lawrence
Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.
— DH Lawrence
The optimist builds himself safe inside a cell and paints the inside walls sky-blue and blocks up the door and says he's in heaven.
— DH Lawrence
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies-thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
— DH Lawrence