Quotes About Perspective

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Pathos, piety, courage, —they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

Friendship is a horizon-- which expands whenever we approach it.

Thinking critically about why you assume what you assume can make you sensitive, over time, to the cultural mores you bring to the biblical text.

We like to say that generalizations are always wrong and usually helpful.

We can easily forget that Scripture is a foreign land and that reading the Bible is a crosscultural experience.

To live by worry is to live against reality

Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he/she is involved in tragic events.

I'd rather be ignored as a frog than eaten as a human.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

the elves and dwarves were considered the greater races, the humans and blighters the lesser ones. He said the shorter-lived races would be thriving when the others were gone and just legends. In his mind, the great races think only of themselves, the lesser live and build for their children and grandchildren's world.

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.

There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.

There is no reality without interpretation; just as there is no innocent eye, there is no innocent ear.

It is not their standard of craftmanship which is different from ours, but their ideas.

The term which psychology has coined for our relative imperviousness to the dizzy variations that go on in the world around us is "constancy." The color, shape, and brightness of things remain to us relatively constant, even though we may notice some variation with the change of distance, illumination, angle of vision, and so on.

Porque es una máxima constante que nadie ve lo que son las cosas si no sabe lo que deberían ser.

The mark of the educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and stood on the top of it, but in his admission that there may be other peaks in the same range with men on the top of them, and that, though their views of the landscape may be different from his, they are nonetheless legitimate.

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

she had the cruelty of youth.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.