Quotes About Perspective

Consider the joke about the miserly farmer who fed his longsuffering cow less and less each day; but just when he thought that he had weaned the cow from eating altogether, the unfortunate animal died . . . showing that we do not need as many gods as early man believed does not show that we need no gods at all; that must be argued on its own merits.57

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

I would describe the distinction between city and landscape like this: cities tend to excite and agitate me; they make me feel big or small, self-confident, proud, curious, excited, tense, annoyed... or they intimidate me. But the landscape, if I give it the chance, offers me freedom and serenity. Nature has a different sense of time. Time is big in the landscape while in the city it is condensed, just like the city's space.

Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.

Go mortals, sweat, pant, toil, range the lands and seas to pile up riches you cannot keep; glory that will not last. The life we lead is a sleep; whatever we do, dreams. Only death breaks the sleep and wakes us from dreaming. I wish I could have woken before this.

Vede insieme l'uno e l'altro polo, Le stelle vaghe e lor viaggio torto; E vedi, 'I veder nostro quanto e corto. (You see both poles at once, the travelling stars in their winding courses, and you see just how limited our seeing really is.)

Le monde a l'envers, zise Gogu Apostolescu. Dar st? a?a de un milion de ani.

Büyük bir hastal?k geçirmeyenler, her?eyi anlad?klar?n? iddia edemezler.

Her mesele bizim ölçülerimizi al?r.

Bir taraf?n hatas? gerçe?i 'hususi ve ferdi'ye ba?lamamas?, öteki taraf?n hatas? 'umumi ve mü?terek'e ba?lamas?d?r. Bir ?ey var olabilmek için hususi ve umumi vas?flara ayn? derecede muhtaç oldu?una göre, gerçe?i bunlardan yaln?z birine ba?lamak mümkün de?ildir.

Things are not always what they seem.

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

If i had it all to do again there would be more bodies.

I remember being asked at various stages last season "Would you take 17th place now?". Come the last game of the season, the answer was definitely yes. At the start of the season, then the answer was probably yes. But looking back at the season as a whole, then the answer is probably between yes and no.

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.

I believe there is a legitimate place for sweat and toil, but life is more than a climb to the top. Therefore, help me, Lord, to enjoy my work one day at a time, unhindered by my desire to get ahead. 10.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Gil: Is your mind always in the gutter? Zeetha: - asks the man with no pants .

The bigger your head, the easier to fill your shoes.

Bill Russell, the Boston Celtics great who won more championship rings as a player than anyone else (eleven), revealed in his memoir, Second Wind, that he sometimes secretly rooted for the opposing team during big games because if they were doing well, it meant he would have a more heightened experience.

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

How long could she be expected to stay in a remote elbow of the Welsh border, where the idea of an eligible batchelor was a man with two tractors?