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Quotes About Perspective

Why can't you be like the Happy Prince?" asked a sensible mother of her little boy who was crying for the moon. "The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything.
~ Oscar Wilde
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
~ Oscar Wilde
The one charm of the past is that it is past.
~ Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. His
~ Oscar Wilde
Um sonhador é aquele que só consegue encontrar o seu caminho ao luar e que, por castigo, vê o alvorecer antes do resto do mundo.
~ Oscar Wilde 1888
figure for the United States is measured in hours.) The
~ Osha Gray Davidson
If you want to know where a person is coming from, you need to read this material, not tear it up! You got to see what makes him think what he thinks! -Ann Atwater
~ Osha Gray Davidson
What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.
~ Oswald Spengler
We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.
~ Oswald Spengler
VÅ¡e hezké má brát ?lovÄ›k od života jako velký dar a vážit si toho.
~ Ota Pavel
Even as a cow she was lovely.
~ Ovid
Lord Marshmoreton: I wish I could get you see my point of view. George Bevan: I do see your point of view. But dimly. You see, my own takes up such a lot of the foreground
~ p g wodehouse
It just shows how one half of the world doesn't know how three quarts live.
~ p g wodehouse
Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.
~ Par Lagerkvist
No, the man said, looking past him with his empty gaze, the realm of the dead isn't anything. But to those who have been there, nothing else is anything either.
~ Par Lagerkvist
15 For fifty fillérs my father would eat a fly, for one florint you could take a picture of the cadaver in his tongue, for five florints and an apple (Starking), he'd bite a mouse in two. He never worked with outsourced mice, he liked to catch his own.
~ Peter Esterhazy
I always advise people to never give advice.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
In a crass and materialistic world there must inevitably be a scattered few here and there in whom pumpkins touch no chord.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
The gift of seeing ourselves as others see us is, as the poet indicates, vouchsafed to few men.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
And when you love someone you don't always see them realistically.
~ P.C. Cast
I know dead. I've been there, done that and got the freakin' T-shirt.
~ P.C. Cast
Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite
~ P.C. Cast
No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life. Why? he asked, opening both his eyes. Because sometimes it's either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you?
~ P.C. Cast
She's really amazing, Darius said as he gazed lovingly after her. If by amazing you mean a total pain in the butt, then I'll agree with you.
~ P.C. Cast