Quotes About Perspective

She has read LOTR, and I don't know if she read it identifying with all of the evil people and hoping the good ones wouldn't resist their temptations, but I know she has read it because the first time I read it, it was her copy. This proves that just reading it isn't enough. After all, the devil can quote scripture.)

I like a writer who cares and takes sides. Pretending to be unbiased is only another kind of bias, and pretending to be dispassionate is often a way of supporting the status quo.

eight books sounds (and feels!) like a lot, but it isn't as if they'll last me all week.

Enfim, cada um o que quer aprova, o senhor sabe: pão ou pães, é questão de opiniães… O sertão está em toda a parte.

Melhor um pássaro voando do que dois na mão!... Eis a versão do provérbio, para uso dos fortes, dos capazes de ideal... - É a versão dos otários, também.

Todos estão loucos, neste mundo? Porque a cabeça da gente é uma só, e as coisas que há e as que estão para haver são demais de muitas, muito maiores diferentes, e a gente tem de necessitar de aumentar a cabeça, para o total.

Todos estão loucos, neste mundo? Porque a cabeça da gente é uma só, e as coisas que há e que estão para haver são demais de muitas, muito maiores diferentes, e a gente tem de necessitar de aumentar a cabeça, para o total.

Do que de uma feita, por me valer, eu entendi o casco de uma coisa. Que, quando eu estava assim, cada de-manhã, com raiva de uma pessoa, bastava eu mudar querendo pensar em outra, para passar a ter raiva dessa outra, também, igualzinho, soflagrante.

He certainly knew that people who are excessively sure that there's only one way and one truth, a truth entirely known to them, are dangerous. . . . To know the truth and try to impose it on others, in a world where every thing changes and is cloaked under all kinds of appearances, is a serious madness.

Henry James escreveu não sei onde que ler um romance é olhar pelo buraco da fechadura.

No moral to this story, you will be saying, and I am afraid it is true.

When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish my blessings.

I asked him what made us different, and he said it was simple, that I thought I could change things, and he knew that no one could.

You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out.

New places always help us look at life differently

Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full impact of World War II? Clear-cut teenage answer: we won.

If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.

If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world?

I looked at her from the corner of my eye. Some people are hard to imagine as children.

You got to laugh Tree, if you don't you'll cry.

I've got my Replogle globe, because you've got to keep a world view, you can't just live like you're the only person on the planet who matters

You don't understand how much light you've got until the lights go out

Parents just concentrate on the thing that drives them nuts and all the other good stuff you do goes out the window.

In life you have to laugh or you'll cry