Quotes About Perspective

Josephine Tey's novel, The Daughter of Time (1951)

about Scotland's history, I saw parts of it in a completely new light. In Jim Hunter's memorable phrase, I compiled an archive of the feet.

Pay a fortune for an LCD TV, all very well, but it doesen't improve the quality of the shite they make you watch.

Ça ne fait rien"4 (or "It does not matter," more loosely translated as "Don't worry, we'll sort it"). Paul and Linda heard Richards's comment as "San Ferry Anne," a phrase they adopted to mean "don't worry," and true to form, McCartney began toying with the phrase as the title for a new song.

The older we become, the more serious we become about life. An adult laughs an average of fifteen times a day a preschooler laughs an average of four hundred times.

We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.

Warren had to decide whether to fight for his choice, and once he did, find a way to preserve his relationship while getting the desired result.

The blindness of the powerful that is a consequence of large power gaps often prevents them from seeing the benefits to them and the organization of having or helping strengthen strong players below.

He said, "I had to dance with all the girls who didn't have a partner. I'd be the youngest one, and I was like a foot shorter, so I was staring straight at all these eighth-grade breasts." "Sh!" "What? It was like the highlight of my childhood.

Some people tell lies about the past. Her dad tells lies about the future. He is always telling a new story.

The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-story building is heard to say as he passes the fiftieth floor, 'So far, so good!

To quit successfully, you need to focus on what the cigarette is doing for you. Once you understand you're not making a sacrifice, you're well on your way to freedom.

movie Twelve Angry Men.

it is interesting to note and also ironic that cigarettes only seem precious to us when we aren't smoking. When we are smoking, we take it for granted and we're barely even aware that we are doing it.

Less intelligent creatures would heed that warning, yet the human species has been brainwashed to ignore it. Smokers who are already hooked say, "Keep trying, it's an acquired taste.

Try to perceive yourself as a nonsmoker sees you

Remember: all you actually enjoy when you smoke is attempting to get back to the relaxed state that non-smokers enjoy throughout their lives.

Sanity - a trick of agreement

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

What is obscenity? And to whom?

One does not know yet whether Christ was God or the Devil - Buddha is more reassuring.

robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets

an ant's dream's funnier than ours - he has more of them faster and seems to give less of a shit -

My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right.