Quotes About Perspective

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark.

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.

A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.

Climb mountains to see lowlands.

The sheep may become king, but the sheep will always remember the lion. Congolese Proverb

One joy shatters a hundred griefs

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool

An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.

Gerçek mutluluk, yava? yava?, azar azar gelir ve bu bizim hayata bak?? aç?m?zla, çevremizle, çevremizdekilere kar?? davran???m?zla do?rudan do?ruya ilgili ve orant?l?d?r. Mutluluk, birbirini tamamlayan ufak tefek ?eylerin birikmesinden do?uyor.

Living with a couple of Scots hasn't been easy, you know. Graham and Angus have made me realize that the old saw is true—it's necessary to either kill a Scot or agree with him, you have no other choice.

The more we identify ourselves with the little 'I' in us,

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

The eye is not harmed by sleep.

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

I don't care about age very much.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.