Quotes About Perspective

I'm saying that some men are saints. Some are happy being meek and humble and unambitious. Some men are born content to be second-best.

Qué son las nubes, si no un pretexto para el cielo? ¿Qué es la vida, si no una huida de la muerte?

You can find friends in manure, sometimes, my son.

What is pain to a man? A privilege!

Put aside your sadness. Life is all sadness.

I really don't understand them, the capitalists. They delude themselves. We're openly committed to consume them but they give us the means to do it.

Changi changed everyone, changed values permanently. For instance, it gave you a dullness about death—we saw too much of it to have the same sort of meaning to outsiders, to normal people. We're a generation of dinosaurs, we the few who survived. I suppose anyone who goes to war, any war, sees life with different eyes if they end up in one piece.

A lot of bull that's worshipped as the be-all and end-all of existence. So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine it. For us ex-Changi-ites—we're lucky, we're cleansed, we know what life is really all about. What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

Remember, child," her father had drummed into her, "remember that advice, good advice, comes from unexpected places at unexpected times.

Poor God," Blackthorne said. "The stupidities He gets blamed for!

I'm too young to be that old.

When even the bartenders lose their romantic notions, it's time for a better world.

Cab drivers are night-riding denizens of the first order. They view wretched foibles from a gutter perspective.

Facts can be bent to conform to any thesis.

if a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an undersized opinion of himself.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized...

Life is sweet, even to the aged; and, for that matter, I've known some that seemed to set much store by it when it got to be of the least value.

To those who live in the narrow circle of human interests and human feelings, there ever exists, unheeded, almost unnoticed, before their very eyes, the most humbling proofs of their own comparative insignificance in the scale of creation, which, in the midst of their admitted mastery over the earth and all it contains, it would be well for them to consider, if they would obtain just views of what they are and what they were intended to be.

One of the misfortunes of a nation, is to hear little besides its own praises.

Así, nosotros tenemos siempre los ojos vueltos hacia el sol que surge y no hacia el que se esconde y que besa vuestros lagos de aguas dulces donde un mohícano moriría.

Che diritto hanno i cristiani bianchi di vantarsi del loro sapere, mentre un indiano è in grado di leggere una lingua che sarebbe troppo oscura per il più saggio di loro?

The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.

What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.

Thirty-six. If you want to shrink something, you must first expand it. If you want to get rid of something, you must allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must allow it to be given. The soft will overcome the hard. The slow will beat the fast. Don't tell people the way, just show them the results.