Quotes About Perspective

As we say, if your only tool is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.

truth needs two people to make it work—the speaker and the listener.

The sun has riz, and the sun has set, and here we is in Roosha yet.

One can be a product only of one's own era, not anyone else's.

Tom Walsh doesn't exactly talk down to people, but there's a thin line between him stating the obvious and him thinking he's giving you new information.

Pravda, as you know, means 'truth,' and Izvestia means 'news,' and I've heard it said that there is no news in the Truth and no truth in the News.

Sou um menino que vê o amor pelo buraco da fechadura. Nunca fui outra coisa. Nasci menino, hei de morrer menino. E o buraco da fechadura é, realmente, a minha ótica de ficcionista. Sou (e sempre fui) um anjo pornográfico

Eu sou o cínico da família. E os cínicos enxergam o óbvio.

Cada um de nós, individualmente, pode não ter o sexo na cabeça; mas o povo o tem.

Até então julgara-se feliz e, de repente, descobre que sua felicidade não existe

It was so beautiful', he said. 'the Three Pagodas Pass must be one of the loveliest places in the world. you've got this broad valley with the river running down it, and the jungle forest, and the mountains....we used to sit by the river and watch the sun setting behind the mountains, sometimes, and say what a marvellous place it would be to come to for a holiday. however terrible a prison camp may be, it makes a difference if its beautiful.

the cornmeal fritters were very good if you could forget about the maggots

John Osborne laughed. "It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end of us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.

People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had, she said quietly, staring into the embers. They don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.

You don't feel any different as you get older. Only, you can't do so much.

I pointed out to her what sort of life she would be able to lead upon nine hundred a year. As an instance, I told her that she could have a country cottage in Devonshire and a little car, and a daily maid, and still have money to spare for a moderate amount of foreign travel.

One grows old unknowingly. One accepts the passing of years as a phenomenon that has little bearing on one's personality. And then, quite suddenly, one comes to the realisation that one's contemporaries are growing a little old, falling off a little. One realises that one's hair is white.

If a man looks upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright - that of equality.

for I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language could reveal the secret of life.

What do you think, Mr Alleyn? If there's another war will the young chaps come at it, same as we did, thinking it's great? And get the same jolt? What do you reckon? I'm afraid to speculate, said Alleyn.

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

No serious writer would claim that the reign of Western civilization was unblemished. Yet there are those who would insist that there was nothing whatever good about it. This position is absurd.

We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.

It was the Germans who first spoke of the war as 'der Weltkrieg', the world war; the British preferred the 'European War' or, later, the 'Great War'.