Quotes About Perspective

McKie sensed her thoughts, her reactions. Jedrik: 'You cast your sperm upon the stream of time.' McKie: 'You enclose and nurture . . .' 'I cast/I nurture.' It was as though they looked at an object from opposite sides, aware belatedly that they both examined the same thing. 'We cast/we, nurture.' Obscuring layers folded away and McKie found himself in Jedrik's mind, she in his. Their thoughts were one entity.

Era possível comparar o infortúnio de um só com a agonia das multidões?

Que sentidos nos faltam para que não consigamos ver um outro mundo a nossa volta?

Only a mentality that could see the entire multiverse would be able to dispense with probabilities.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or read for yourself.

Bridey drags on her Woodbine, drinks her tea and declares that God is good. Mam says she's sure God is good for someone somewhere but He hasn't been seen lately in the lanes of Limerick. Bridey laughs. Oh, Angela, you could go to hell for that, and Mam says, Aren't I there already, Bridey?

If you had the luck of the Irish You'd be sorry and wish you was dead If you had the luck of the Irish Then you'd wish you was English instead

My Stuyvesant students were not satisfied. Why was I telling them stories of women from the Islands and Puerto Ricans and Greeks when the world was going to hell? Because the women from the Islands believe in education. You can demonstrate and shake your fists, burn your draft cards and block the traffic with your bodies, but what do you know in the end? For the ladies from the Islands there is one relevance, education. That is all they know. That is all I know. That is all I need to know.

E greu de priceput de ce-È™i ies oamenii mari din pepeni chiar aÈ™a de r?u din cauza unor lucruri m?runte cum sunt capacele de aerisire. Când o s? fiu om mare, n-o sa stau sa pocnesc copiii mici din cauz? de capace de aerisire sau mai È™tiu eu ce.

Les diría que escribieran una nota de despedida de ciento cincuenta palabras, como si fueran a suicidarse. Sería un buen modo de animarles a pensar en la vida en sí, pues Samuel Johnson dijo que pensar que nos van a ahorcar a la mañana siguiente centra la mente de una manera maravillosa.

I want to live as long as I can, and die when I can't help it.

The more loss we feel, the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for . The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is.

I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is...

The secret to understanding Citron was that ... he knows thirty percent of what he thinks he knows

What you see is what you see

Ak nebudeme žiadaÃ…Â¥ vesmír o veci, ktoré nám nemôže daÃ…Â¥, nezdrví nás realita. Nepotrebujeme jediný a definitívny dôvod života. Posta?í aj ?ubovo?né množstvo menÅ¡ích.

You will never understand Jesus by looking at the God of the Old Testament. You must first look at Jesus and then you will understand the God of the Old Testament.

The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively-- because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?

I feel a lot of people don't know what high school is - including those who are in it. My material is provided to give them some perspective. People are stupid. They never stop to question things. They just accept. Can you imagine a nation who never questions the validity of cheerleaders and pom-poms?