Quotes About Perspective

So, you just told him all his cards?" East asked when we returned. "And he's going to remember them?" asked West. "You can ask me," my uncle said. "Despite my lack of eyesight, I can hear and speak.

How many onions do you think we've eaten?" he asked. Zero shrugged. "I don't even know how long we've been here." "I'd say about a week," said Stanley. "And we probably each eat about twenty onions a day, so that's…" "Two hundred and eighty onions," said Zero. Stanley smiled. "I bet we really stink.

You know what? I'm not going to describe anybody else as elderly. Let's just say that if you take my age and double it, I would still have been the youngest person in the room, by a lot.

He didn't want her to know that he didn't understand, but what he didn't realize was that she didn't understand either, so that if he had just told her he didn't understand, she would have understood, but when he told her he understood, then she didn't understand.

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

Who's Mary Bopkins? asked Mrs. Jewls. Was she famous? Why? asked Miss Zarves. Does your class only study famous people? Do you think famous people are more important than people who aren't famous?

And I can get my own phone, said Leslie, with unlimited text messaging! And I can get my car fixed, I said. Or maybe even a new car. Or a new house that already has a swimming pool, said Leslie. And a hot tub, I said. And a game room, and a pool table, said Leslie. And a giant TV with surround sound, and every kind of video game. And, and, and... That's the trouble with money.

Bad dreams are better than good dreams. When you have a bad dream, you wake up, you look around, and you say, Whew! It was only a dream. Everything is still the same as it was—wonderful! When you have a good dream, you wake up, you look around, and you say, Darn! It was only a dream. Everything is still the same as it was—rotten.

Is your last name your first name backward? Zero asked. Stanley stared at him in amazement. Had he been working on that all night?

Even the book I'm reading to my class," said Miss Zarves. "The author makes fun of teachers!

Come on, D.J. You can tell me. Why are you so happy?' D.J. looked up at him. He said, 'You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

Suck your toes. That's what I do," said Sharie. But Leslie's foot wouldn't reach her mouth. "Well, that's all toes are good for," said Sharie. She put her foot in her mouth and went to sleep. "No," thought Leslie. "They must be good for something.

Perhaps it's understandable to be more jaded on one's second exposure to something strange.

It's amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Just because my dreams are different than yours doesn't mean their unimportant

I don't envy her much, in spite of her money, for after all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I think

misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

Poor Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.

That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he? said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.

Tired of my own company, I suppose, now I've seen so much better.

You may be a little older in years, but I'm ever so much older in feeling, Teddy.