Quotes About Perspective

Age is a meaningless commodity in most instances.

They were forcing the children to describe the future they wanted, not the one that could be.

The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does.

Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. Don't Panic. I'm not panicking, Quinn observed, I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely. I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.

So you're saying that I could die at any moment!" "Yes. And this is different from your life yesterday in what way?

Women shouldn't be in combat, said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. Neither should men, in my opinion.

Stand before his grave and use your gift of breath to complain of your limited time. If you dare.

He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

Not all prisons are made of iron bars, some are made of feather beds.

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true.

Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.

It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you.

I'm not panicking. I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining.

There's all of us adults, and one of him. We ought to be able to keep up. Why do I feel like he has us outnumbered and surrounded?

To a man of certain age... all young ladies start to look delightful. It's the first symptom of senility.

T)he cadet was too young to believe in death after life.

Sorry, Bill. I just have this awful vision of being p-peeled like an onion, looking for the seeds. He grinned. Onions don't have seeds, Cordelia. I stand corrected, she said dryly.

It indicates a deep confusion of thinking to mistake one's own discomfort for a benefit to another.

All sorts of men don't make it home for the births of their children. But My mother was out of town on the day I was born, so she missed it, just seems . . . seems like a more profound complaint, somehow.

Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?