Quotes About Perspective

Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

The attitude behind your words is as important as the words themselves.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

Does he feel my request is unreasonable? ("Why does my mother bug me to wash behind my ears? Nobody looks there.")

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backward.

What the two men shared was the knowledge that they were individuals.

You're a glass-half-empty kind of guy, sir, aren't you? I don't even acknowledge the existence of the glass, son.

Even when you were completely wrong about something, the journey into your wrongness was always fucking interesting.

It only takes two facing mirrors to construct a labyrinth. Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights

None taken, son. I'd love to see things from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my arse.

the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist.

the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist." ? Adrian McKinty, The Island

Kate and Kendrick were those rare English bureaucrats who lived in the future not the past, something that no one in Ireland ever did.

I'm not down with the kids, though, am I? And you still haven't answered my question. What's an SEP?" "Someone else's problem, Sean," Matty said, with a heavy and significant sigh.

encouraging nod of the head. Through the gigantic glass windows

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

Aprendi que viajar ainda é a melhor forma de alterar a vida, mudar as ideias e abraçar a inspiração, mas devemos estar de olhos bem abertos e ansiosos por agarrá-la, ou é um desperdício.

This is something that I have learned at PA that I would have never learn at home because I have my own room and I'm an only. Nobody has it easy, not even the Great and Tall Blond One

Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.

I want you to realize that this whole thing is just a grand adventure. A fine show. The trick is to play in it and look at it at the same time. . . . The more kinds of people you see, the more things you do, and the more things happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they're not pleasant things. That's living . . . ~ Edna Ferber's SO BIG

It's never enough, Ciro. Never enough. Believe me, eventually, you run out of ways to make a woman happy.

I) realize that maybe my daughter did miss out on a big family life as an only child, but what she got instead was just as valuable. How many girls have an honorary aunt like Iva Lou? Sometimes what we don't get in this life makes way for something even better.

Fall in love with a plain girl. Plain girls never turn bitter. They appreciate their portion, no matter how meager A small pearl is enough. They never long for the diamond. Beautiful girls have high expectations. You bring them daisies, and they want roses. You buy them a hat, ad they want the matching coat. It's a well so deep you cannot fill it. I know. I've tried.