Quotes About Perspective

on the whole the US personnel soon felt considerably more sympathy for the Germans than for their victims.

I'm not happy to face it," he added, "but in the context of my life then, these workers' only significance was what they could produce towards our war effort; I didn't see or think of them as human beings, as individuals.

moço de dezasseis anos que não sabia nada, mas era precisamente por essa razão que estava mais adaptado ao mundo novo do que ele, que sabia tudo.

Sabe como são os jovens, levam tudo terrivelmente a sério, é a maldição dessa idade.

Mas quem recolheu mais votos foi Estaline. Estaline, está a entender? Foi aí que eu compreendi que a Rússia nunca se tornaria um país como os outros. Não que houvesse alguma verdadeira dúvida.

Tu ne contrôles pas les choses qui arrivent, pire, tu n'es même pas capable de savoir si elles sont bonnes ou mauvaises.

Crois-moi, la seule chose que tu peux contrôler c'est ta façon d'interpréter les événements. Si tu pars de l'idée que ce ne sont pas les choses, mais le jugement que nous portons sur elles qui nous fait souffrir, alors tu peux aspirer à prendre le contrôle de ta vie. Sinon tu es condamné à tirer sur des mouches avec un canon. »

Crois-moi, la seule chose que tu peux contrôler c'est ta façon d'interpréter les événements.

Crois-moi, la seule chose que tu peux contrôler c'est ta façon d'interpréter les événements. Si tu pars de l'idée que ce ne sont pas les choses, mais le jugement que nous portons sur elles qui nous fait souffrir, alors tu peux aspirer à prendre le contrôle de ta vie. Sinon tu es condamné à tirer sur

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

mean you do it to purify your whole outlook and get an absolutely new conception of what everything's about.

Evil is relative…You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

In his youth, [he] had believed everything was possible. Then in grief, he believed everything was impossible. And now. . . he felt that when you had lived enough of your life, there was no difference between the two.

The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below.

We're the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it's only the best thing for us if it's the worst thing for someone else.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

He was always teasing me about not reading books, but one day he said: Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you'd understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.

Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices.

It's just what you're stuck with, the lousy furniture you can't change. The educated me knows hell's nothing, a fiction I happened to inherit. The other me knows I'm going there. There must be a dozen mes these days, taking turns looking the other way." "It's the postmodern solution," I said. "Controlled multiple personality disorder. Pick a fiction and allocate it an aspect of yourself.

He was a blessing in my life. My life was full of blessings. And one curse: That no amount of blessings was ever enough.

When something happened that was everything to you you realized it was nothing to everything else.

Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you'd understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.

But all the while and all the while and all the while the world.