Quotes About Perspective

This and your music … you have happiness. Why cannot I find it?' 'Because you do not look in the right places,' said Kiaya.

You see," said Marthe. "I am not here to mock. I have worn out my revenge. You have guided me into a world which has been closed to me all my life. You have shown me that what I hold by, you hold by and more. You have shown me strength I do not possess, and humanity I thought belonged only to women. You are a man, and you have explained all men to me….

Her ripostes, on the whole, had been more successful than his. Or perhaps she, too, was feeling like this.

I think it would be truer to say,' Philippa said, 'that both of us at the time had our reasons for hurting you.

When a Venetian associates with a Genoese, it is not for the sake of amusement, I assure you.

I require you, if you mean what you say about helping, to be a young ass in Aleppo, not Zakynthos.

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.

why doesn't anything end happily? Because, said Mrs. Pollifax slowly, there are no happy endings, Jenny, there are only happy people.

Maybe everyone lives with terror every minute of every day and buries it, never stopping long enough to look. Or maybe it's just me. I'm speaking here of your ordinary basic terrors like the meaning of life or what if there's no meaning at all...Sometimes I think we're all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we never look down we're okay, but some of us lose momentum and look down for a second and are never quite the same again: we know .

I mean, have you ever stopped to realize - not just the miracle that life is - but how basically comic it is despite its griefs? The wonder of it, as Amman Singh says, is that we take it so seriously. One day, poised on my tightrope, I hope to manage a glorious cartwheel, or at the very least a pirouette.

But a certain perspective is needed about tragedies, Betsy, for they happen to nearly everyone. Eventually you have to learn, try to learn, that it's the eternal things that matter, and among them courage.

there are no happy endings, Jenny, there are only happy people.

T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

I am occasionally desired by congenital imbeciles and the editors of magazines to say something about the writing of detective fiction "from the woman's point of view." To such demands, one can only say "Go away and don't be silly. You might as well ask what is the female angle on an equilateral triangle.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

In the terms in which you set it, the problem is unanswerable; but in the Kingdom of Heaven, those terms do not apply. You have asked the question in a form that is much too limited; the 'solution' must be brought in from outside your sphere of reference altogether.

Harriet had long ago discovered that one could not like people any the better, merely because they were ill, or dead—still less because one had once liked them very much.

Thank you. This line of salt is the beach. And this piece of bread is a rock at low-water level.' Wimsey twitched his chair closer to the table. 'And this salt-spoon,' he said, with childlike enjoyment, 'can be the body.

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

Mummy, I think I might understand if only you wouldn't explain.

can't see that she could have found anything nastier to say if she'd thought it out with both hands for a fortnight. She