Quotes About Perspective

Never thought o' myself as a man who fills sacks with heads." "No one sets off in that direction," said Clover, puffing out his cheeks one more time. "But before you know it, there you bloody are.

Supongo que el amor cae donde cae. La madre Owd levantó una ceja. —Por lo general se ve caer de lejos y da tiempo a apartarse. —Pues

You can't understand! You're not...a man.' 'Had I been confused on that point, it was put beyond doubt when I pushed you out of my womb. Have you any notion how much you weighed as a baby? Spend two days shitting an anvil we'll talk again.

La historia no es un relato de las batallas entre el bien y el mal, sino entre el bien de una persona y el de otra. El mal no es lo contrario del bien. Es como llamamos a la noción del bien que tiene otra persona cuando difiere de la nuestra.

The past isn't made of facts, not really, just stories people tell to make themselves feel better. To make themselves look better.

She leaned a little closer to whisper it. "Primrose Heights. Calling a thing a different thing don't make it a different thing, now does it?" "Wouldn't know," croaked Broad, who beat men for a living and called it labour relations, "I'm no philosopher.

Money is a different thing to every man, Bialoveld wrote, but always a good thing.

To the starving man, bread is beautiful. To the homeless man, a roof is beautiful. To the drunkard, wine is beautiful. Only those who want for nothing else need find beauty in a lump of rock.

They tell you drink makes you happy, but what they mean is it makes happy folk happier. They don't tell you that it makes unhappy folk more fucking unhappy than ever.

You can pick out the bits that suit your story and toss the unhappy truths to the wind.

Never to want for anything, or work for anything, or show the tiniest grain of self-discipline in a whole life must give a man a strange outlook on the world,

Folk aren't just cowards or heroes. They're both and neither, depending on how things stand. Depending on who stands with them, who stands against. Depending on the life they've had. The death they see waiting. They

Eider frowned. Something for her to think about, perhaps? "I would have thought your pain would give you empathy." "Empathy? What's that?" Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. "It's a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.

The thing about history is you don't know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters.

Nothing but a drizzle. The sun can't always shine. You have to be realistic!

but if you let other people's smugness make you angry you'll be angry all the time.

You have to love the small things, when you've nothing else.

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

Children think sex is funny

Perception is reality. Certainly I can say that my perception is my reality and your perception is your reality. The challenge is to choose a perception that is most likely to create opportunity.

Stand in the horse's hooves. Study his history. Understand why he is the way he is, and why he acts the way he does. He's a prey animal. You mean like a rabbit?? Pretty much, yeah. But he weighs eleven hundred pounds!! Yep.

I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.