Quotes About Perspective

One always expects something else.

The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.

Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour's worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden's not saluting a major properly). Kat believes the war would be over if leaders gave all the participants "the same grub and the same pay," as he says in a rhyme. Kropp believes the leaders of each country should fight each other in an arena to settle the war; the "wrong" people currently do the fighting.

One is never too young. Only always too old.

I always thought everyone was against war until I found out there are those who are all for it, especially those who do not have to go there.

There's something good about unpleasant memories: they make you think you're happy when a moment before you were convinced of the contrary.

The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.

A woman who is desired by someone else, even a love-starved coffinmaker, immediately becomes more precious than before. Man, as it happens, lives by relative rather than absolute values.

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Ja mis teil südamel ka poleks – ärge pidage seda liiga tähtsaks. Vähe on asju, mis kauaks tähtsaks jäävad.

Kes midagi ei oota, ei saa ka pettuda. See on hea lähtepunkt. Kõik, mis siis järgneb, lisab juba natukene juurde.

Armastus teeb naise teravmeelseks, mehe aga võtab juhmiks.

Inimene elatub 75 protsenti omaenda fantaasiast ja ainult 25 protsenti faktidest – see on tema tugevus ja tema nõrkus.

From this day forth I place dressmakers above philosophers. Those people bring beauty into life, and that's worth a hundred times the most unfathomable meditations.

We didn't want the war, the others say the same thing—and yet half the world is in it all the same." "But there are more lies told by the other side than by us," say I; "just think of those pamphlets the prisoners have on them, where it says that we eat Belgian children. The fellows who write those lies ought to go out and hang themselves. They are real culprits.

When a man has seen so many dead he cannot understand any longer why there should be so much anguish over a single individual.

Mes amžinai pamirštam, kad gyvenam šitoje planetoje tik trump? laik?. Tod?l ir ?sigyjame absoliu?iai klaiding? pasaulio kompleks?. Lyg b?tue žmon?s, kuriems b?t? duota gyventi amžinai.

I think it's more a kind of fever,' says Albert. 'Nobody really wants it, but all of a sudden, there it is. We didn't want the war, they say the same thing on the other side – and in spite of that, half the world is at it hammer and tongs.

Tas, ko nevar dab?t, cilv?kam vienm?r liekas lab?ks par to, kas vi?am ir. Te past?v cilv?ka dz?ves romantika un idiotisms.

There's something good about unpleasant memories: they make you think you are happy when a moment before you were convinced of the contrary. Happiness is a question of degree. When you know that, you are seldom completely unhappy.

He did indeed always refer to us as swine, but there was, nevertheless, a certain respect in his tone.

Fericirea este o chestiune de propor?ii.

It makes very little difference where one lives, Kate. Some places are more comfortable than others, but it is never important. The only important thing is what one makes of it.

Petnaest sre?nih godina su kratke - odgovorih. Petnaest nesre?nih godina su duge i pružaju ?oveku mnogo iskustva.