Quotes About Perspective

It is a temporal universal that people never appreciate their own time, especially transportation. Twentieth-Century contemps complained about cancelled flights and gasoline prices, Eighteenth-Century contemps complained about muddy roads and highwaymen. No doubt Professor Peddick's Greeks complained about recalcitrant horses and chariot wheels falling off.

then in a conversational tone said, I slapped my Aunt Martha. When my fiancé died. She told me God needed him in heaven, and I hauled off and slapped her, a sixty year old woman....People say unbelievable things to you. They deserve slapping.

Maybe the conference was an inversion layer of another kind, bringing me face-to-face with old friends and old places. With cancer and the Gap and the Old Man, railing about newfangled players and spicy food. Bringing me face-to-face early with death and old age and change.

None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.

He stepped forward and grasped the staircase's railing, looked up at her earnestly. Is it a comedy or a tragedy? 'He doesn't mean the war,' she thought. 'He's talking about all of it - our lives and history and Shakespear. And the continuum. She smiled down at him. A comedy, my lord.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." —ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPÉRY, The Little Prince If

Dar adev?rul nu st? într-un singur fapt. AÈ™a cum un om nu are doar cutare vârst?, atâtea kilograme, cutare în?lÈ›ime È™i culoare a ochilor È™i a p?rului. Un om este toate acestea, plus înc? ceva. Iar acest ceva e mai important decât toate acestea. Tot astfel, adev?rul e un num?r de fapte, plus înc? ceva. Întotdeauna. Faptele singure nu sunt niciodat? întreg adev?rul.

Nimeni nu poate s? ias? din propria sa existen??, aÈ™a cum nici ursul nu poate s? ias? din cuÈ™ca lui de la menajerie. Tot ceea ce i se întâmpl? cuiva din partea altcuiva pare straniu pentru noi. Când noi ar?t?m interes preocup?rilor altora, acord?m, de fapt, interes propriilor noastre preocup?ri.

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.

He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. That would be a hell of a zoo. The judge smiled. Yes, he said. Even so.

The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

It's just that sometimes I think I would have found my life pretty funny if I hadnt had to live it.

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.