Quotes About Perspective

Yes, so it appears. But you can look at the thing from another angle. Fräulein Greta was his niece and a very lovely girl, but the War has shown us time and again that brother can turn against sister, or father against son and so on, and the loveliest and gentlest of young girls did some of the most amazing things.

Un buen consejo siempre será ignorado, pero eso no es motivo para no darlo.

I remember a saying of my Great Aunt Fanny's. I was sixteen at the time and thought it particularly foolish." "Yes?" I inquired. "She used to say: 'The young people think the old people are fools; but the old people know the young people are fools!

It is to show you that it is the eyes of the mind with which one really sees….

I believe the "present" matters - not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms - a false perspective.

It seems sometimes, sir, as though the past isn't the past

You seem to be a sensible young woman and I don't suppose you've thought much about world politics which is just as well, because as Hamlet very wisely remarked, 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

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One had to humour him a little, of course. But then I always find one has to do that with men.

You comprehend - I began to look at the case the right way up. Expense no object? Naturally not - to you. Reckless of human life - that, too, since for a long time you have been virtually a dictator and to a dictator his own life becomes unduly important and those of others unimportant.

Never to despise the trivial – the undignified.

We do not agree, eh?" said Poirot. "Well, let us leave it. Time will show which of us is right.

Don't you," I said wearily. "You're a young man. You're zealous in the cause of right. When you get to my age, you'll find that you like to give people the benefit of the doubt.

Kad bi svinje poletele, sasvim je neverovatno da bi zbog toga postale ptice.

Mereka yang tidak pernah memikirkan uang membutuhkannya jauh lebih banyak

That would mean looking at the case from entirely different angle," I said. "One so often has to do that - about everything. Don't you think so?

I do not complain," said Poirot, and proceeded to do so.

it is often the case that one learns more about a person from their enemies than from their friends." "You suggest that their faults are more important than their virtues?" said Mr. Carey. His tone was dry and ironic. "Undoubtedly—when it comes to murder.

The only thing I can't make up my mind about is whether it is an insult or a compliment to be considered a potential murderess. On the whole, I think it's a compliment.

You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle." "That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

It looks like a hand," he remarked. "But, if you say so, I'm quite prepared to admit that it's a cubist picture of Sunset at the North Pole.

Sometimes—things seem unreal. I can't believe, this minute, that it ever happened…." Marshall said slowly: "I think I know what you mean. Nature is so regardless! One ant the less—that's all it is in Nature!" Rosamund said: "Yes—and that's the proper way to look at it really.

I am sixty-nine,' he said. 'Everything I know of life I know at second hand. Sometimes that is very bitter to me. And yet, because of it, I know a good deal.

Mladi ljudi pripadaju svojoj generaciji. Možemo mi misliti da mnogi njihovi potezi nisu mudri, ali moramo prihvatiti njihove odluke.