Quotes About Perspective

The problem with looking at so much history from such a distance is that everything gets so crowded. Things are complicated in every period — you step back too far to get a generalised picture and you lose all the important, deciding details. Zoom in too far to get the detail and you'll get lost in complexity and never find your way out.

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.

We'll wake up every day and we'll tell ourselves, "Live for today, you retarded little shit. The end is near.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

You and me will died the way we lived; telling ourselves stories to make it mean something.

Before your mother I didn't spend too long with any one girl. I used to believe that life was too short. I was too young to settle down. Then I met your mother and fell in love. Now I think maybe I was right. I was too young to settle down.

In the end it doesn't matter if this creature is really our mother. We feed it things and tell it about our problems. It's still all about us.

Sometimes in a crowded mall I realise that everyone has a whole life of their own and it's like suddenly seeing infinity ignoring itself.

Was ist trauriger: ältere Menschen wegen allem, was sie gesehen, gehabt und verloren? Oder Kinder ohne jeden blassen Schimmer von allem, was sie sehen, haben und verlieren werden? Das hier war noch trauriger: ein Kind mit der bedrückenden Weisheit eines alten Menschen.

Ich muss daran glauben, dass sich Menschen ändern können. Vielleicht irre ich mich, das ist sogar wahrscheinlich , aber ich muss daran glauben, damit alles andere einen Sinn ergibt.

It's better to have loved and lost than to be nagged about buying a damn anniversary gift every year.

You know you've reached middle-age if...) when you hear 'Boys in the hood' you think of the Ku Klux Klan.

The reality, as I now see it, is that death happens, and that death often happens in ways that seem horrific. Refusing to eat meat does not stop that.

A thousand tiny imperfections can make a perfect life.

We forget that sometimes there is something greater than our pain. That's the pain of the person who loves us, who couldn't protect us from that pain.

She shook her head. "You're insane." "We're human, Cass. That's all. We're all kids playing grown-up. We do the best we can." [Lucas to Cassandra]

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

If you want to know yourself,Just look how others do it;If you want to understand others,Look into your own heart.

Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter.

I look upon the finest logical demonstration the way a sensible girl regards a love letter.