Quotes About Perspective

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children.

One look tells you ours have had more food, nicer clothing, and better dental care," said Dean Highbottom. "Assuming anything more, a physical, mental, or especially a moral superiority, would be a mistake. That sort of hubris almost finished us off in the war.

Who needed wealth and success and power when they had love? Didn't it conquer all?

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all

It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots. And yet, in an odd way, I know they're sincerely trying to help me.

That the Careers have been better fed growing up is actually to their disadvantage, because they don't know how to be hungry. Not like Rue and I do.

So well intended, and yet so insulting. - Gale Hawthorne

But I can honestly say he's never been attractive to me. Maybe he's too pretty, or maybe he's too easy to get, or maybe it's really that he'd just be too easy to lose.

Tienes tanto encanto como una babosa muerta.

Did you indeed?" said Ripred. "It seems like only yesterday you were a baby bouncing on your grandpa's knee. And now you're starting wars. They grow up so fast.

You haven't hurt people — you've given them an opportunity.

Who knows who I would be or what I would talk about if I'd been raised in the Capitol? Maybe my biggest regret would be having feathered costumes at my birthday party, too.

Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that I was going to take over the Fount with and army of Lobsters?" said Ripred. "You did try to take over the Fount with an army of Lobsters," said Vikus. "Yes, yes, but it was years before she was born. My point is, she flip-flops in and out of time like a fish in shallow waters," answered Ripred.

My mother was beautiful once too. Or so they tell me. -Katniss

While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking only of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.

Watching the bright pages of his picture books — the very ones he'd pored over with his mother — reduced to ashes had never failed to bring him to tears. But better off sad than dead.

It still seems too small. I should try to think bigger, beyond our current situation where I am of the utmost importance, to the future where I may be worth nothing.

Nothing like one of Sandwich's prophecies to put your whole world in perspective.

Funny, though, I don't feel too bad.

Pero ¿cuál es el peor dolor? Para mí, siempre es el dolor que está presente.

I'm not too upset to answer that." Peeta takes a deep breath and then looks straight into the camera. "I want everyone watching — whether you're on the Capitol or the rebel side — to stop for just a moment and think about what this war could mean. For human beings. We almost went extinct fighting one another before. Now our numbers are even fewer. Our conditions more tenuous.

En los distritos no tenemos hospitales de verdad, morimos en casa, lo que me resulta una perspectiva mucho más deseable que lo que tengo delante. Entonces recuerdo que muchas de estas personas habrán perdido sus hogares en los bombardeos.

Tens una debilitat per a les coses boniques, i jo no —[…]. —Tenir bon ull per a la bellesa no és cap debilitat —apunta en Peeta—. Tret, potser, quan es tracta de la teva…