Quotes About Perspective

Cara Elinor, evidentemente lei è nata nella storia sbagliata» osservò Dita di Polvere. Erano le prime parole che pronunciava dall'inizio del viaggio. «Nella storia sbagliata? Vorrà dire nell'epoca sbagliata. Sì, anch'io l'ho pensato spesso». «La chiami un po' come le pare» replicò lui.

Il punto è che credi troppo volentieri a ciò che vuoi credere.

Was ist der grö?te Schatz, den du je gefunden hast?', hatte Chanute ihn vor nich allzu langer Zeit gefragt. Jacob hatte die Schultern gezukt und ein paar aufgezählt. 'Du bist ein nog grö?erer Dummkopf als ich,' hatte Chanute geknurrt. 'Ich hoffe nur, das du ihn nicht verloren hast, wenn dir die wahre Antwort dimmert.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Some come here to wait for death, others for life to begin at last, others again live only on the stories they are told.

Non sembrano luoghi pericolosi» constatò mentre superavano l'ennesima casetta rosa. «Perché guardi sempre a sinistra!» le disse Dita di Polvere. «Tutte le cose hanno un lato chiaro e uno scuro. Da' un'occhiata a destra».

You want me to write something about him? Heavens, it was confusing enough when I had only my own characters to worry about!

And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on—developing and changing like our own world.

But now I think that there's no reason that Mrs. Dotta's job is more important than my mother's job. Mamaji wouldn't have a job without Mrs. Dotta's factory, but Mrs. Dotta wouldn't have a factory without Mamaji's work, right?

Every time I hear someone saying that money is bullshit, I check to see how much money they have.

Uništio sam mu to uvjerenje. Bilo je lažno, naravno, ali održavalo ga je na životu. Vidjevši ga onako jadnog i slomljenog, zapitao sam se je li bolje biti svjestan i o?ajan ili živjeti u raju za budale.

So far, I've managed to spend more time free than behind bars. Paranoia is my friend.

There's more than one way to be smart. People like my dad assume that because they're smart about being evil bastards, they're smart about everything—

I don't think that the average person is sixty percent good and forty percent prick. I think that the average person sometimes kids himself that he's the center of the universe, and it's okay if he does something that he'd be pissed about if someone else did it to him, and tries not to think about it too hard.

My point of view is fallacious!

As in, "When I forget to do the dishes, that's because no one's perfect. When you forget to do the dishes, it's because you're a selfish asshole.

You're going to hate to hear this, but you're too young to get it. Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you're thirty is exciting and will change the world forever. Anything invented after that is an abomination and should be banned. You don't remember what life was like twenty years ago, before walkaways. You don't understand how different things are, so you think things don't change that much.

End of the day, anything that made you discount objective reality and assign a premium to some kind of internal mental state was going to be both pro-survival and pro–status-quo.

discounting' is when you discount something too much, just because it's some time in the future.

Makes me want to tweak reality's gamma slider.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine.

You can't hate your best friend for taking opportunities he'd been given. That would be the worst sort of hate, wouldn't it? Because it would mean you hate yourself, too.

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.