Cordell Hull Quotes

I just can't help but see things differently.

You can divide my life into two.

Perspectives change.

Everyone's entitled to their point of view but that's seriously a weird one.

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'. ... 'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true.

It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.

We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it.

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

The wall around the window does not create two worlds.

If something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don't put it in the facts section.

A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

My earth is somebody's ceiling

Our shadows are taller than ourselves.

When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.