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Quotes About Perspective

I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.
~ Jim Butcher
Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong.
~ Shannon L. Alder
waiting for happiness is never make you happy, Being happy is the key of happiness forever.
~ skumarsinha
Papa!" she whispered. "I have no eyes!"He patted the girl's hair. She'd fallen into his trap. "With a smile like that, " Hans Hubermann said, "you don't need eyes.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.
~ John Fowles, The Magus
It's getting more difficult to be wise, " he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. "I think that's how it'ssupposed to be.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
I'm a positive guy, even if I don't smile a lot.
~ James Arthur
Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.
~ Kenneth Branagh
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.
~ Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?
~ Jacque Fresco
To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
~ Man Ray
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
~ George Bernard Shaw
What a society deems important is enshrined in its art
~ Harry S. Broudy
With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.
~ Martin Parr
We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.
~ Leif Johansson
Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?
~ Peter Hitchens
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
~ Horace
Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.
~ Owsley Stanley
So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.
~ Sean Penn
We've turned into a whining society.
~ Billy Corgan
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.
~ Salman Rushdie
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
~ Zora Neale Hurston