Quotes About Perspective

It was bad enough to be stuck in a pipe with a porcupine, worse to be in there with a lunatic, even if the lunatic happened to be herself.

But the thing about my granddad is . . . it's kind of hard to convince him people won't just do the right thing. You hate to say anything that sounds hostile or untrusting or small-hearted around him. You feel like he'd be disappointed in you.

The best works of art have a tendency to fall through time differently than human beings. They remember, but they also anticipate. A good piece can mean different things to different people at different times, and all of those meanings are true, even if they contradict one another.

Invent a way not to ged old," he said. "It is a terrible goddem trick to play on someone. Gedding old is no way to stop being young.

A gente esquecia que o tempo e o espaço eram uma coisa só até eles começarem a se mover depressa, até os pinheiros e postes de telefonia começarem a passar chispando. Então, no meio de toda essa velocidade, o tempo se expandia, de modo que o segundo que se levava para percorrer sete metros começava a durar mais do que outros segundos.

She was a cartoonist, not an engineer; reality could get stuffed.

He had heard it the way he wanted to hear it. He had known what he had wanted to know. Maybe it was always that way for almost everyone.

Nor had he wanted to get right with God; he felt that God needed to get right with him.

But the desert offers something that no forest brook or valley ever can: distance. A

Because love requires context.

Why is it so important for us to listen to girls? Because a girl's voice may be the most valuable and most threatened resource she has.

It has everything to do with your world view- your basic set of beleifs and whether or not those beliefs include God.

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

People can talk all they want about the Big Ten. About Michigan and Ohio State and Indiana and Kentucky or whatever, but there's no way that compares. They're in different states. Here, we share the same dry cleaners." - Mike Kryzewski

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

I dread that awkward moment when a friend hands you the book that changed his or her life, and it is a book that you have despised since you were fourteen.

Books are a way of saying: This room seems to have more than its fair share of bozos in it.

for i am old. so very old. older than she got to be. and I'm not sure a person ought to live to be too old. for when you can´t live life, you´re just burning life, sucking air and making turds.

Era semplicemente il fiume. Improvvisamente mi colpì il pensiero che era proprio come la vita, quel fiume. Tu ci navighi semplicemente sopra e, se arriva una pioggia forte, un'inondazione o qualcosa del genere e una parte viene spazzata via, col tempo tutto torna al suo posto. Be', magari con qualcosa di diverso, ma in sostanza resta lo stesso. Il fiume non cambia, ma la gente su quel fiume sì.

Problem with trying to be rational all the time is the other fellow ain't always concerned with how logical your argument is.

Doctors and nurses saved me from the big, dark plunge, and I didn't thank Jesus when I came around. I thanked the medical staff, their years of schooling, their tremendous skills. I always figured if I was a doctor and I saved some person's life, and the first thing they said when they came around was "Thank Jesus," I would have wanted to stick a pair of forceps up their ass and tell them to see if Jesus could yank those out for them.