Quotes About Perspective

Qu'est-ce qu'un pays sinon l'idée qu'on s'en fait ?

the Himalayas rose layer upon layer until those gleaming peaks proved a man to be so small that it made sense to give it all up, empty it all out.

Sai had wondered, Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?

The war was in Europe, not here. Why all this fuss about where someone was born? Wasn't it where he lived - rather, how he lived - that counted?

It's hard for me to see characters as villains... just heroes with competing agendas.

Making a different choice isn't the same thing as giving up," Janeway said. "Sometimes we're not happy because we aren't living up to our own expectations. But sometimes we're not happy because we're asking the wrong things of ourselves. Part of growing up is learning to tell the difference between the two.

My mother used to say that the gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own future.

Both life and work were a great deal more rewarding when you didn't take them seriously.

The gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own futuer.

It is both a blessing and a curse that one could never see too far down the road ahead

We all have two lives, Counselor: the one we want and the one we learn to live with. I'm content with both of mine.

What we both overlooked was the fact that insight is not only gained by personal reflection, often it is acquired by unexpected experiences that bring new perspectives to our analysis.

Both life and work were a great more reewarding when you didn't take them quite so seriously

You will learn no more once you have decided you know

Neatness is the hobogoblin of little minds

Yeah right. I'll believe you, thousands wouldn't. Want to borrow my mirror?

Da hat Frau Voisin gesagt, dass sie keine Kinder hat und auch keinen Hund, und ob Maus denn nicht weiß, dass man zu erwachsenen Leuten nicht du sagen darf. Sie hat dabei gelächelt, aber man konnte schon merken, dass sie nicht richtig freundlich war. Und ich finde, Maus darf doch du sagen, weil er erst vier ist. Ich bin ja schon acht und ich vergesse das auch noch manchmal.

You know, sometimes when you're too close to someone, it's hard to see who they really are.

It wouldn't have been such a leap, truth be told. She'd been seeing things through men's eyes for years. Her entire career, men had informed her what was good and what wasn't. And she'd always assumed they were right.

No mentí. A veces cuando nos enamoramos, tomamos los hechos y los convertimos en historias bonitas. Pero es peligroso hacerlo; porque un día, te guste o no, verás el mundo como realmente es.

We can't change things, you and I. We sit up here all day, under a bad sun, but we can't stop the weather turning. We make our piles of earth and they become graves around us. Nothing's as important as it seems.

With age, man's hair grows grey, his teeth become loose; his eyes and ears too become dim in action; but the only thing that does not abate is his desire for enjoyment