Quotes About Perspective

Whaddaya mean 'old maids,' ha? The term is 'unclaimed treasure,' buddy, 'unclaimed treasure!

Sometimes during Mercury Retro I think, "Huh. This ain't so bad." & then that little bitch planet slaps me and I'm all, "On second thought."

What she said was something about trusting that everything, no matter how horrible it might seem at the moment, ultimately turns out to be a blessing.

and I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury.

Sve sretne obitelji su podjednako, svaki nesretna obitelj nesretna je na svoj na?in.

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.

You have a fixation with time - clocks, years. What do they matter when there's love?

What do years have to do with this feeling we have? They're just... just numbers.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

I have never understood the saying 'To think outside the box.' Why would anyone sit inside of a box and then think outside of it. Rather just get out of the box.

Every wild thing is in tune with its surroundings, awake to its fate and in absolute harmony with the planet. Their attention is focused totally outwards. Humans, on the other hand, tend to focus introspectively on their own lives too often, brooding and magnifying problems that the animal kingdom would not waste a millisecond of energy upon. To most people, the magnificent order of the natural world where life and death actually mean something has become unrecognizable.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

Life, I'd heard someone say, is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. It seemed to me that it was both at once, even for those of us who don't do much of either.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don't have to give a rat's ass about.

I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

The world is like a cucumber—today it's in your hand, tomorrow up your arse.

We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.