Quotes About Perspective

Prefer to eat the eggs I've got, my king, rather'n the ones still up in the tree.

Relief, or disappointment? Hard to tell the difference.

Aye, well, one person's mad is another's remarkable.

what really happened doesn't matter half so much as what people want to hear.

Ain't they people too, though?" muttered Beck, thinking of the face of that Union man lying dead in the shack yesterday. "Just like us?" Whirrun squinted across at him. "More than likely they are. But if you start thinking like that, well… you'll get no one killed at all.

La mejor pradera es la que siempre se encuentra al otro lado del horizonte. El agua más dulce, la del siguiente río. El cielo más azul, el que siempre ves encima de otra colina. Y antes de que te des cuenta, una mañana te castañetean las articulaciones y no puedes dormir dos horas seguidas sin levantarte a orinar, y sólo entonces comprendes que el mejor lugar quedó atrás, y que no lo viste porque estabas obsesionado en seguir adelante.

They say you can see all the beauty in the world in the way a hanged man swings.

Small things only seem smaller in large spaces.

No hay nada como contemplar la desgracia ajena para olvidarse de la propia.

An open mind is like to an open wound,' growled Glokta. 'Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain.

Right things, wrong things, well...it's all a matter of where you stand. Every choice is good for some, bad for others.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you've nothing else.

Who knows why anyone does anything? The world's a complicated bloody place." "Everyone has their reasons ... It's just a question of knowing what they are. Then the world's simple.

A wise man once told me you have to be realistic.

Lo que queremos y lo que necesitamos pueden ser cosas diferentes.

But a man lost in the desert, as the Gurkish say, must take such water as he is offered.

?oveku koji umire od gladi lep je hleb. Besku?niku je lep krov. Pijanici je lepo vino. Samo oni kojima ništa ne nedostaje trebaju lepotu tražiti u komadu kamena. Cosca

Probably been sure he'd got the right god, the right king, the right cause. Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all.

So… the same people, doing the same job, but called something else?

Your Majesty, we are not here to set right all the world's wrongs.' Orso stared back at him. 'What are we here for, then?' Bayaz neither smiled nor frowned. 'To ensure that we benefit from them.

Walk in God's footsteps, Ferro Maljinn." "Huh. They have no God here." "Say rather that they have many." "Many?" "Had you not noticed? Here, each man worships himself." She nodded. That seemed close to the truth.

La gente prefiere creer que el mundo está lleno de maldad antes que de mala suerte, egoísmo y estupidez.

I know you like to think you're jolting about helpless in a runaway cart, carried off to who-knows-where with no say in the matter, but if you look down, you might see you're holding the reins.

La palabra secuestro es muy fea. ¿Por qué no lo considera como una invitación difícil de resistir?