Quotes About Perspective

If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.

Something I owe to the soil that grew— More to the life that fed— But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides to my head.

At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.

If I can attain Heaven for a pice, why should you be envious?

If you cross examine a child of seven or eight on his day's doings (specially when he wants to go to sleep), he will contradict himself very satisfactorily. If each contradiction be set down as a lie and retailed at breakfast, life is not easy. I have known a certain amount of bullying, but this was calculated torture - religious as well as scientific.

Your Gods and my Gods—do you or I know which are the stronger? —Native Proverb.

Ostatní tÄ› nenávidí jen proto, že nesnesou tv?j pohled, protože jsi moudrý, protože jsi jim vytahal trny z nohou – protože jsi ?lovÄ›k.

Baloo and Bagheera, for, at the pace the monkeys were going, he knew his friends would be left far behind. It was useless to look down, for he could only see the top sides of the branches, so he stared upward and saw, far away in the blue, Rann, the Kite, balancing and wheeling

But no sooner had he walked to the city wall than the monkeys pulled him back, telling him that he did not know how happy he was, and pinching him to make him grateful.

Al éxito y al fracaso, esos dos impostores, trátalos siempre con la misma indiferencia

You can work it out by Fractions or by simple Rule of Three, But the way of Tweedle-dum is not the way of Tweedle-dee. You can twist it, you can turn it, you can plait it till you drop, But the way of Pilly Winky's not the way of Winkie Pop!

Do not pay too much attention to fame, power, or money. Some day you will meet a person who cares for none of these, and then you will know how poor you are.

Money dominates everybody except those who do not want money. Rudyard Kipling in an address at McGill University in 1907

I don't expect you to understand me any more than I can understand you; but I respect you and that's the difference between us.

You are making a mountain out of a molehill,' said Angela. Olivia was suddenly inspired to answer, 'A molehill can be a mountain to a sparrow.

She did not know that males do not care to be circumvented, however wonderfully, by their females.

If we persist in distinguishing and holding apart myth and history, we are in danger of missing the story's own sense of truth.

Rush Limbaugh

For instance, a man generally doesn't even know how small a woman is until he holds an article of her clothing up in front of him, one of her nightgowns, say, and sees how small and flimsy it is and how like a child's and unlike his own, and how thick and heavy his hands seem.

He said, Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.

Listen, identify withe the victims and you become one yourself. Victims make lousy litigators.

Fixing motives is like fixing blame-the further away from the act you get, the harder it is to single out one thing as having caused it.