Quotes About Perspective

40 minutes in a city is nothing. But 40 minutes along a rural highway seems like an eternity. So we're driving along, and I ask my friend if we're there yet, and he says no, so I say, "Jesus. By the time we get there, the kid won't even be dead anymore." There is this pause in the car, and one of the other actors says, "Dude. Did you just quote your own movie?" I answered in the affirmative, and he says, "That was very cool.

As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, "Aye, Sir. Course laid in" is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.

Riker tells Data to just get on with it already, so Data says Ferengi are like Yankee traders from 18th-century America. This indicates that, in the 24th century, the traditional practice of using 600-year-old comparisons is still in vogue, like when you're stuck in traffic on the freeway, and say, "Man, this is just like Vasco de Gama trying to go around the Cape of Good Hope!

That includes the gross parts, which I am learning to accept (without condoning) through the words of the great Bob Ross: "You can't have light without a little darkness.

Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.

What use will money be to him in the Sands.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

Sen onlara ancak ?öyle sahip ç?kars?n küçük adam: Öteki küçük adamlar, bu büyük adamlar?n gerçekten büyük oldu?unu sana söyledi?i zaman.

Büyük sava?ç?lar?n yapt??? kötülükleri de?il de, büyük adamlar?n dü?üncelerini içinde duyabildi?in an, çocuklar?n?n ö?retmenlerine politikac?lardan çok daha fazla ücret verildi?i an, kad?nla erkek aras?ndaki sevgiye, bir evlenme cüzdan?na gösterdi?inden daha büyük bir sayg? duydu?un zaman güzel olacak ya?am?n.

Gençler her zaman hakl?d?r, ben eminim bundan, hakl? de?ilseler de haklar? vard?r. ?unu demek istiyorum: Kendi tecrübelerini edinmeye sonuna kadar haklar? vard?r. Kötü tecrübeler olsa bile bunlar, ders ç?kar?rlar.

Bilge insan, o an elinde olanla ya?amay? bilendir. Ters durumlardan da ç?karacak bir ?eyler bulunur: "Bundan da bir ?eyler ö?renebilirim." Ya?am boyu çok ?ey ö?renmi?tir ve çok ?ey biliyordur fakat tüm bilginin göreceli oldu?unu da biliyordur.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.

Qué es el sentido común sino la pereza inherente a nuestro entendimiento, de salir del recinto tan pequeño y tan mezquino de nuestras representaciones y admitir la posibilidad de otras premisas?

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

Caring for people often takes the form of concern for the quality of their stories, not for their feelings.

impressions, feelings, and inclinations; when endorsed by System 2 these become beliefs, attitudes, and intentions

Charge the loss to your mental account of 'general revenue'—you will feel better!