Quotes About Perspective

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common - they don't change their views to fit the facts. They change the facts to fit their views

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

Constant complaining and nagging about how life is a biatch, will only grow it more horny..

You urge time when you are expecting your salary, you urge time when you want to meet your beloved, you urge time when you wish to see your children grow up. And when time is urged, you astonishly exclaim! Maybe this is the true theory of relativity..

Our perspective of life has passed into an ideology which conceals the fact that there is life no longer.

Sometimes I think the point of old age is to be embarrassed about one's youth.

Quizá finalmente ese sea el precio de vivir en un país extranjero. No es sólo que vives una vida distinta de la que dejaste atrás. Es que la vida en el extranjero te vuelve extraño.

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

Zwei Augen hat man nur und mit hundert soll man sehen

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

Der Splitter in deinem Auge ist das beste Vergröserungsglas.

Do not dismiss what you do not understand

CATHERINE: I can't write from Diana's point of view. MARY: Of course you can. You're a writer; you can write anything. Just find your inner Diana. CATHERINE: I don't have an inner Diana. DIANA: Ha! You wish. Everyone has an inner Diana.

Spectacular cases are usually simpler, and less interesting, than they initially appear.

As the Habsburg military used to say, the situation is catastrophic, but not serious.

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.

Tocqueville understood, as few modern writers do, that pauperism is above all a psychological, not an economic, condition.

True, its people were much better off in material terms at the end of the century than at its outset, but man's sense of well-being depends upon comparison with others as well as upon his absolute condition.

comes as a genuine shock to parents of children to whom nothing has been denied that they should turn out selfish, demanding and intolerant of the slightest frustration.

One man's poverty is another man's employment opportunity.

A thought will color a world for us.