Quotes About Perspective

Est-ce que vraiment, disait-elle, la terre est aussi belle que le racontent les oiseaux ?

Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.

Bisogna lasciare la ragione agli altri perché questo li consola di non aver altro.

An art book is a museum without walls.

Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last long as the bad. Not even close.

Control what you can control.

Pop, I said, isn't this shit vaulable? Not to me, son.

It's been six months, Nancy.' 'What's your hurry? It took me a year to get used to living with Carl. I mean, what do men do anyway? They work, eat, drink, and play games. Sex for them is in the sports and recreation category. You can't live with a man and not be lonely.' 'You think so?' 'Absolutely. Besides, once you have kids, it all changes anyway. Everything seems to make sense then.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.

L'amitié, dit-il, ce n'est pas d'être avec ses amis quand ils ont raison, c'est être avec eux même quand ils ont tord.

It was through Peter that she first understood that the world existed before her, without her. For a few days she could not forgive him for this.

One day I saw that my friend had put a bowl, a cup, a teapot, and a square milk carton on the edge of a well, had filled them all with water, and was looking at them attentively. " 'What are you doing?' I asked him. And he answered me with a question in turn. " 'What shape is water?' " 'Water doesn't have any shape!' I said, laughing. 'It takes the shape you give it.

I've read Hamlet, I know men suffer.

her first goal was 19. then she became 19, and she didnt die. it surprised her. nothing had ever surprised her like that.

Ich erfinde keine Geschichten. Ich schreibe eine andere Sorte Geschichten. Ich schreibe so wahrhaftig wie der Mann mit seinen Fingern, wenn ich nur alles behalten und sagen kann; aber ich bin nicht auf seiner Seite. Ich bin auf einer anderen Seite. Ich sage die Wahrheit, aber aus einer anderen Sicht. Ich bin diejenige, der er es angetan hat. Der Köder spricht, Süßer.

It's as if every crack in the sidewalk is an open door to somewhere; you can go between the cracks to the hidden world but regular people never even see the cracks.

I'm not feeling regret. I'm feeling confused and off balance." "And you like being in control." "Not of others, but of myself, yes.

You don't ever know how happy you are until you remember how sad you once were and vice versa. Nothing is anything until I decide to hold nothing next to something, and declare that I see a difference.

Are you in pain?' I asked, because I know that everything in the world that matters shows up as some kind of pain. Or pang. Joy included.

If we stopped arguing for one true view and conceded that we had a choice in this matter, we might gain the ability to choose flexibly. We could then more easily choose perspectives that allow us to solve problems we humans care about, problems that require delicate decisions, such as how to best distribute resources in a country, how to provide for and educate a population, and how to improve its intelligence.

North Korean rulers do what they are doing not because they are "evil" or driven by some delusionary ideologies, but rather

An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.