Quotes About Perspective

You have to realistic about these things.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else.

That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a river you called home.

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

Take everything as a compliment, you can never be insulted.

Death waits for us all. Nothing's forever. Life's about making the best of what you find along the way. A man who's not content with what he's got, well, more than likely he won't be content with what he hasn't.

I'm trying to put things in the best light, but a turd's a turd, whatever light it's in!

If you can't find anything to complain about you aren't looking hard enough.

They have that most strange and dangerous of qualities," said Cosca. "They think they're in the right.

Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all.

the more you learn the more you understand the size of your own ignorance.

Believe it or not, we all want what's best. The root o' the world's ills is that no one can agree on what it is.

Never doubt another's choices, I say. You can't know his reasons.

But that's the nice thing about looking backwards. You can pick out the bits that suit your story and toss the unhappy truths to the wind.

But things are always going to be better, or were better long ago. No politician ever got anywhere by telling people things are just right as they are.

Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man's notion of good when it differs from ours.

People would far rather believe a lurid lie than a sorry string of accidents. Would far rather believe the world is full of evil than full of bad luck, selfishness and stupidity.

Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,' snapped Lorsen. 'Indeed,' said Cosca, significantly. 'The cock-rot is rarely fatal.

When life is a cell, there is nothing more liberating than captivity.

Everything beautiful has a dark side, and some of us must dwell there, so that others can laugh in the light.