Quotes About Perspective

I've gone out alone and bellowed in rage at God at the top of my lungs. But the fact that I bellow at him I suppose proves that I think he's there, doesn't it? Go ahead and be mad at God if you feel like it, Vicky. [...] But remember when you're yelling at God, what you're doing is saying, Do it MY way, God, not YOUR way, but MY way

so often I need OUT; something will throw me into total disproportion, and I have to get away from everybody—away from all these people I love most in the world—in order to regain a sense of proportion.

cow. It finished opera for me for years.

Que la terre est petite à qui la voit des cieux!

Que la terre est petite à qui la voit des cieux! Delille.

It's not the first incomprehensible thing that's happened in our lifetime," his wife reminded him.

Okay, I can get to the grade school all right, but I can't possibly take you with me. You're so big you wouldn't even fit into the school bus. Anyhow, you'd terrify everybody.' At the thought she smiled, but Proginoskes was not in a laughing mood. 'Not everybody is able to see me,' he told her. 'I'm real, and most earthlings can bear very little reality.

We'll never leave the solar system as long as we keep on thinking of time as a river flowing from one direction into the sea.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

I tell a friend that I hope for Mother's death, and he is shocked; he sees it as a failure in my love toward her. Perhaps it is. I don't know.

It's extremely difficult to get things in perspective when you rub up against them every day.

Happiness, he said, warming his hands around a fresh cup of coffee, is a choice. "You have to brew it in yourself. Even from a lump of food, we choose each grain to suit our need. Likewise, in the philosophical manner, we choose to be who we are.

One thing I have discovered since I've been ill, though, is that nobody ever knows anybody, and maybe least of all the people who are closest to them. Sort of a business of not being able to see the trees for the woods. We all live in isolated prisons of our own bodies and there's no real contact with any other human being. That's what sex is, in a way, isn't it, a desperate striving for contact? With which cheerful Thought for Today, I will bid you good afternoon.

Sextus [Empericus] identifies three different types of philosophy. There are Dogmatists, who think that they know the truth. There are Academic Sceptics, who think the truth can never be known. Then there are Sceptics, who retain an open mind, not thinking truth is yet discovered, but prepared to accept that it might be.

people don't have to explain things nearly as much as you think they do.

For one thing nobody seemed to think that

Do you like Stevie?' 'No, but he's good-looking.' 'And is Philip O'Brien good-looking?' 'No, but he's keen on you.' Clio had the world sorted out.

Out by that ocean, you feel smaller, less important, somehow; it puts things into proportion

Not that I'm any kind of authority but I do know that hours and hours are spent in Frankie's flat, in cafes and after lectures, talking about men and what they are thinking and what they're planning…and it seems to turn out in the end that they're not thinking about anything or planning anything. I just tell you that in case it's some comfort.

She described the work as Girl Friday; it was, in fact, Dogsbody, which scanned perfectly, and after all, words mean what you want them to mean. These

Birisini sevince onu de?i?tirmeye kalkmak yanl?? bir ?eydi.

No point in destroying Wednesday thinking about Friday. This one-day-at-a-time thing really worked. Friday

No, that can't be so.' 'Believe me, it is. All kinds of things you told them like sunsets are good and killing small birds is bad.' 'Oh please, may I have said something less banal. Please!

We argue that approaching our professional practice from a perspective influenced by the Slow movement has the potential to disrupt the corporate ethos of speed.