Quotes About Perspective

Es sind die kleinen Dinge, die die Welt vergrößern.

There are so many today who are given to judging the good bad and the bad good. They act not to right but to cross purpose.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally - has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings.

The trouble is we can't see the plan, and so we go fretting because it doesn't fit our ideas.

Las mujeres han comprado libros escritos por hombres desde siempre, y se dieron cuenta de que no eran acerca de ellas. Pero continuaron haciéndolo con gran interés porque era como leer acerca de un país extranjero. Los hombres nunca han devuelto la cortesía".

Men have so often written about women without knowing the reality of their lives, and worse, without being interested in that daily reality.

Near home I ran through our park, where I had aired my children on weekends and late-summer afternoons. I stopped at the northeast playground, where I met a dozen young mothers intelligently handling their little ones. In order to prepare them, meaning no harm, I said, In fifteen years, you girls will be like me, wrong in everything

One pill makes you largerAnd one pill makes you smallAnd the ones that mother gives youDon't do anything at all.Go ask AliceWhen she's ten feet tall.

The truth of God's Word cannot be subject to the puny light of man's self-centred reason

There is no gravity. The earth sucks.

When asked his opinion of the French Revolution, Chinese Premier Zhou En-Lai in the 1950s famously remarked, "It's too early to tell.

Thus, in a world without Islam, the much harsher Jewish critique of Jesus, as expressed in Judaism, still stands.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.

To treat an object primarily as part of a network is to assume it can be reduced to that set of qualities and relations that it manifests in this particular network.

There are good men everywhere. Here. Odessa. Even Moscow. Do they count? Does anyone ever listen to them? Yes, of course they do. At the beginning, their voices matter. Without them nothing happens. But afterwards it's different. Afterwards, the only thing that matters is power.

But it's like life, isn't it? We know death is coming. And yet we always see our loved ones as taken away from us, instead of given to us for whatever time they have.

The truth is useless if no one can hear it.