differing viewpoints Quotes

What darkness to you is light to me

I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you're going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there's no way they're going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they're going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You're an actor. What do you know?"

my husband, who is a lawyer, is very careful with words and with the truth. He thinks that the truth exists, and it's something that is beyond questioning, which I think is totally absurd. I have several versions of how we met and how wonderful he was and all that. At least twenty. And I'm sure that they are all true. He has one. And I'm positive that it's not true.

When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.

One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.

There's no correlation between what the public likes and what I'm after. I'm in a different world.

Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.

I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.

Doing what you thought was right for the country, rather than what was politically expedient, seems almost as quaint now as having civil disagreements with those whose viewpoints differ from your own.

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

I think it would be a boring game if everybody was the same, just like it would be boring if you guys asked the same dumb questions.

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside the White House, as you learned, sometimes with painful experience, have competing agendas, have differing points of view, have priorities they're trying to protect.

What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.

In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.