Quotes About Perspective

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

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

You have more years ahead of you now than Pejar, half your age, whom we buried outside these walls these two days past. Stand before his grave and use your gift of breath to complain of your limited time. If you dare.

Koudelka puzzled over this attempted readjustment of his point of view, then let it bounce harmlessly off his impermeable habits of thought.

So what's the test? Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life.

Another day will put some other plate on your table, more to your taste, but do not waste the food in front of you.

His further study of humanity had revealed just how much people could convince themselves that their own needs were those of the gods, and not the other way around.

Indeed. On average, one-half of all supplicants to come before a judge's bench must depart angry and disappointed. But not, by that, necessarily wronged..

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge? Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge.

Are you glad, or sorry?" "About children?" She glanced at his face. He seemed to have no awareness of having hit a sore point dead on. "They just haven't come my way, I guess." The

she had switched from counting her years not up from birth, but back from death—a grab-bag of time not growing, but shrinking, use it or lose it.

Miles watched the evening shadows flowing up along the backbone of the Dendarii range, high and massive in the distance. How small those mountains looked from space! Little wrinkles on the skin of a globe he could cover with his hand, all their crushing mass made invisible. Which was illusory, distance or nearness? Distance, Miles decided. Distance was a damned lie. Had his father known this? Miles suspected so.

Miles's eyes glinted. Besides, it'll put a little excitement in your life, Sergeant. It has to be dull as dirt, following me around all day. I'd be bored to tears. I like being bored, said Bothari morosely.

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

I figure we can tell events exactly as they happened, just leave out that one tiny detail." "You figure, do you? You must be using a different kind of math than the rest of the universe does.

Could he stop denying himself, and deny others instead? He tested the phrases on his tongue. No, you are wrong, all of you, Temple and Court and folk in the streets. You always were wrong. I am not…am not… what? And are these the only terms I can think in, these shouted nos? Ah, habit.

So this is my death. Why did I ever fear it? Speaking as an expert, you never seemed to Me to fear it all that much, He said dryly.

Did you imagine you controlled it? Omniscient and omnipotent? Nobody appointed you God, Vorkosigan." Ghostly faint, one corner of his mouth turned up. "I'm sure it was an oversight." He leaned back and closed his eyes.

Ekaterin's vision of him, he reminded himself, was not exactly objective. Thank God. "I've been trying to charm quaddies all day, with no noticeable success.

perhaps he was not old enough yet to have really come to believe in death after life.

I spent a career fighting the powers-that-be. Now I am them. Naturally, I was a little confused.

I'm not so in love with facts as I used to be. Sometimes, they bite.

If the gods saw people's souls but not their bodies, in mirror to the way people saw bodies but not souls, it might explain why the gods were so careless of such things as appearance, or other bodily functions. Such as pain? Was pain an illusion, from the gods' point of view? Perhaps heaven was not a place, but merely an angle of view, a vantage, a perspective.