Quotes About Perspective

Vamos falar de sexo - começou. - Eu percebo de sexo. A mãe diz que não dói, mas às vezes as pessoas gitam e fazem barulhos porque é divertido.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?

Don't complicate the simple, Lenore, he told her thinking aloud. It usually manages to complicate itself.

Don't complicate the simple, Lenore, he told her, thinking aloud. It usually manages to complicate itself. ---Nora Roberts Second Nature

Time's fickle. When you need it, there's too little of it. Then you wake up at three o'clock in the morning, and there's too much of it. It's usually better to take it that to anticipate it.

Da always said you'd be the good angel and I the bad. He was finally right about something.

She'd just be more satisfied if my happiness aligned with her point of view.

Death is a problem of the living. Dead people have no problems.

Tässä kommunistien ja kapitalistien näkemykset käyvät yksiin: molemmat ajattelevat saman paradigman mukaisesti, että talous on jokaisen yhteiskunnan keskeisin alue. Itse en ole samaa mieltä. Hitaasti hiipivä identiteettikriisi, joka liittotasavaltaa on kohdannut, on vähintään yhtä vaarallinen.

L]oneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding views which others find inadmissible."29

Because we are all human and there by share a neurological apparatus of vision which we can take, save for cases of obvious malfunction, as behaving in the same way for everyone, there seems no reason to doubt that what a painter understands by, say, a hand is exactly what everyone understands by it. Yet how can we be sure that visual experience is universally similar? What guarantees the guarantee?

The formula Muscovy + Ukraine = Russia does not feature in the Russians' own version of their history; but it is fundamental.

One must be both subjectively involved in and objectively detached from life, and that true happiness rests neither in the one sphere nor in the other exclusively, but rather in achieving a harmonios balance - however fragile - between the two.

Why do we say, "That's true for you but not for me," when we're talking about morality or religion, but we never even think of such nonsense when we're talking to a stock broker about our money or a doctor about our health?

Truth is unchanging even though our beliefs about truth change. (When we began to believe the earth was round instead of flat, the truth about the earth didn't change, only our belief about the earth changed.)

contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible. We can believe everything is true, but we cannot make everything true.

But truth is not a subjective matter of taste—it's an objective matter of fact.

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school science teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead." —ANDY STANLEY

doubt.Therefore, it takes a lot more faith to be a non-Christian than it does to be a Christian.

I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself.

But just because no-one sang the story, no-one wrote the book, no-one filmed it, that doesn't mean it didn't happen.

What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong?

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

If you define your personality as creative, it only means you understand what is perceived to be creative by the world at large, so you're really just following a rote creative template. That's the opposite of creativity. Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time. But ANYWAY...