Quotes About Perspective

Then let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.

Life is pain," his mother said. "Anybody that says different is selling something.

One final silly face. One blessed responding laugh. Fezzik closed his eyes then, thinking only this: thank God I was a giant after all....

I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.

Then let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.

I mean, I really do think that love is the best things in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

How Buttercup slid from her womb was, of course, beyond her. But she had been there when it happened; that was enough for her.

I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

La vida es puro sufrimiento —le decía su madre—. Y quien te diga lo contrario es porque te quiere vender algo.

la vida no es justa. Le decimos a nuestros hijos que sí lo es, pero eso es una barbaridad. No sólo es una mentira, sino que es una mentira cruel. La vida no es justa, nunca lo ha sido y nunca lo será.

La vita è dolore» disse sua madre. «Chiunque affermi il contrario cerca certamente di venderti qualcosa».

Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.

life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

But, to judge the action fairly, we must transport ourselves to the age when it happened.

So there are no nontheologians; there is just good theology and bad theology.

The Bible's concern is not if we shall believe but what we shall believe.

A Princeton student being interviewed by a reporter was questioned about the prospect of American troops going to Afghanistan when the Soviet Union invaded there. "There's nothing worth dying for," was her response. Which means of course that one day she shall have the unpleasant task of dying for nothing.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea.

I have never heard of a suicide that I expected.

Then Croesus was angry. "Why is it," he asked, "that you make me of no account and think that my wealth and power are nothing? Why is it that you place these poor working people above the richest king in the world?" "O king," said Solon, "no man can say whether you are happy or not until you die. For no man knows what misfortunes may overtake you, or what misery may be yours in place of all this splendor.

This is what I think about it: My old man and I lived for fifty years seeking happiness and not finding it; and it is only now, these last two years, since we had nothing left and have lived as laborers, that we have found real happiness, and we wish for nothing better than our present lot.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.