Quotes About Perspective

People are fools, not monsters

Women aren't so keen to have them anymore, not where I come from, anyway. They've got other fish to fry, which is fair enough. But they don't realise, sometimes, what they're missing, or what they're withholding, you know? The power they have.

So, in Melting Pot the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, America was the new world and Europe was the old, in one stroke eradicating the narratives of indigenous persons for whom America was hardly new, and any nonwhite kids whose old worlds had been in Africa or Asia, not Europe.

Even when a white person is closely tied to African Americans, that white person is often living in an entirely different world from that of their friends, though we rarely realize it.

What others might dismiss as the vagaries of fate, my father interpreted as dancing lessons from the Divine.

Timothy B. Tyson

Somewhere between the fact we know and the anxiety we feel is the reality we live.

A cél pedig nem az, hogy mindenben egyetértsünk - ennek még a gondolatát is el kell vetni -, hanem az, hogy pontosan megegyezzünk abban, miképpen nem értünk egyet.

Ha nem tudjuk kifejezni gondolatainkat és érzéseinket, akkor emberi mivoltunkat sem tudjuk egészében megélni. Ha nem hallhatjuk és láthatjuk embertársaink érzéseit és gondolatait, akkor soha nem fogjuk megérteni, mit jelent másvalakinek lenni.

and it replaces for me what others call religion.

The more we analyze, the more ambiguous things become.

Writing about music really is like dancing about architecture--and a good thing, too. Everything is like that.

The idea that there are multiple worlds because there are multiple lifeforms and that no one world or scale is the right one means that efficiency is only efficient from a particular standpoint. For example, the idea of sustainability implies that the system we now have is worth sustaining.

You and I will only be able to understand what is valuable when we examine things from the perspective of eternity.

He uses the difficult seasons in our relationships to allow us to see what we typically live for besides him.

Everything God does and everything God calls us to only make sense from the perspective of eternity. If there is no end to the story, believers are a bunch of fools who need to be pitied. There is no reason for what we have tried to do. But there is a final chapter! God has opened it up so that we could look in and then look back to our lives with understanding and hope.

what is remembered says a great deal about those doing the remembering." For

I've never had to find a hard question in my life," she countered tartly. "They've always found me first.

It's sort of like coming home … only it isn't. I've never really stood here and just looked at the city like this. The Emperor... I don't think he ever saw the Imperial City as people and lights. - Mara Jade

Estudie arte, Capitán. Si entiende el arte de una especie, entiende a esa especie.

That's right... I never felt a sense of superiority because I could see spirits. And I never once thought that I could make a living or help someone with it. I just longed for a life where I couldn't see them. And I finally got what I always wanted.

If such a thing called happiness exists in this world, it should be something which resembles the limitless nothingness. Nihility is having nothing and having nothing to lose. If that isn't happiness, then what is?

Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.

Just 'cuz a kid is crying doesn't mean it's a conversation worth crying over.