Quotes About Perspective

3D – Arkady had seen it mainly in profile

I'm not a dream crusher. The real world already does enough of that without me getting into the business

it gets a little tiresome when you're so high you go to the movies and look up at the marquee and think the starting times are the ticket prices. I mean, I remember standing there going, 'Ten-fifteen? What kind of price is ten dollars and fifteen cents?' It's a hassle." "Yeah, one time I was putting gas in my car and thought the number of gallons was the price. I even got into an argument with the cashier. It was hilarious.

You have to stop thinking that way. Don't worry about who has the power in the relationship all the time. If you make her happy, then that's the biggest power you can have.

We all know what a snooze perfection can be.

You think beauty's in some classroom or some textbook, and it's not. That's not what it's about. This right here. This is beautiful. All of this. That's all you need.

I hate it when Bogdan gets sincere. It means I have to work twice as hard to dislike him.

Washington was a small town run by people who believed that they lived in the center of the universe.

The Vietnamese have a saying that you can't use a basket to cover a lion or an elephant.

What's pretty important, and least was for me, (related an exceptionally good pinch-hitter on the pressures involved with failing with so much at stake) you can't be afraid to enjoy the moment.

Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy

In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.

It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.

the past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.

I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have

So you've given away the old good and evil? asked Rose, amazed at all this rare talk from Quick. No. No. I'll stay a cop. But it's not us and them anymore. It's us and us and us. It's always us. That's what they never tell you. Geez, Rose, I just want to do right. But there's no monsters, only people like us. Funny, but it hurts.

It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to.

Sometimes the crowd is right; often it is wrong. It remains for science to read the balance.

The economist John Maynard Keynes once said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to. How

The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.

In politics, everyone regards themselves as a moderate, because they know some other sumbitch who's twice as crazy as they are.

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

The problem with history was that it was written by the survivors, and they usually wrote in the sunshine on harvest day, from victory stands.