Quotes About Perspective

I make fun of one of my teammates because she's like, I'm going to retire.' And that was after the Beijing Olympics. I don't know. I don't want to put all of my eggs in that basket because who knows what the future holds.

A lot of my teammates in the NBA call me Little Patty anyway as they are about two feet taller than me.

Something that my teammates always thought was going to be a punishment for me - sitting next to Coach Russell on the team bus - actually turned out to be the best moment of my life.

I've got some teammates telling me I can play for a long time, ooh, boy, I don't want to play for a long time.

Sydney thought about it for several moments. "Well. I've got a car." An hour later, I vowed I'd never make fun of that Mazda again.

Oh, Rose. You are young. You've barely lived. Everyone thinks their first love is the only one they'll ever have.

Life's like that," he said. "As we grow and change, sometimes things we've experienced before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life.

You are the world, Letha..

As we grow and change, sometimes things we've experienced before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life.

All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind, what can you trust? What other people tell you?

Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole. It's not just the dress or the hair. It's you. You're beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me

It was the way we were trained. See monsters, not people.

Well. I guess some people write the stories, and others live them.

Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole.

Why was everyone suddenly challenging something that I'd held as absolute truth my entire life?

WHAT DOES SALMON HAVE TO DO with the Warriors?" I asked. Sydney shot me a wry look. "Psalms, not salmon.

Pretty, huh?' I asked. My breath made frosty clouds in the air. 'I guess in some ways, it's not that different from the ski resort's view... but I don't know. I feel different about it today.' 'Life's like that,' he said. 'As we grow and change, sometimes things we've experienced before take on new meaning. It'll happen for the rest of your life.

And anyway, for every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.

Todo tiene lados buenos y malos. Nosotros solo tenemos que balancearlos lo mejor que podamos.

They're not shooting at us, they're not shooting at us," one infantry commander insisted, even as French artillery plastered his battalion.

the prime minister's physician concluded that "Monty wants to be a king." Eisenhower came to believe that "Monty is a good man to serve under, a difficult man to serve with, and an impossible man to serve over." That maxim would tidily sum up the Allied high command in Europe.

But, as Voltaire had observed, history is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

The Arab soldier is interested in just three things: women, horses, and guns," a French officer told an American colonel, who replied, "The American soldier is the same, except that he doesn't care anything about horses and guns.

Few commanders in this war could function without arriving at a sensibility in which thousands of dead and wounded men could be waved away as "insignificant.