Quotes About Perspective

Me kaikki elämme todellisuudessa, mutta kukaan meistä ei tiedä minkä näköinen se on.

Funeral = real fun.

Do you wanna be right, or do you wanna be happy?

It's not quite true that history is written by the winners. It's written by the best publicists on the winning team.

That world may be real for them, but it doesn't mean you have to live in it.

There's a lot of bad travel writing. And bad travel writing can be self-indulgent, ill-informed, overwrought with purple prose, and lacking context. Worse, it can be full of prejudice and stereotypes, and historically was an instrument of colonialism and propaganda. But the best travel writing is none of these.

There's a saying in Haiti: A rich man travels, a poor man leaves.

Being right is the enemy of staying right because it leads you to forget the way the world works

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

To each our own Hamlet.

I wished I could share my own optimism.

Said by Colin the dragon: It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed, when in reality you're all all tiresomely similiar in outlook, needs and motivation, and differ only by peculiar habits, generally shaped by geographical circumstance.

Unless the hole is MEANT to be square,' I said with a sudden erudition that surprised me, 'in which case, all the round pegs are the ones that are wrong, and if the ROUND hole is one that is not meant to be square, then the square ones will, no, hang on--' 'Shame,' said the historian, 'and you were doing so well.

Are all our dates going to be like that? said Perkins. I hope not, I replied with a smile, but it was quite fun, wasn't it? I mean, it's not like we were killed or eaten or anything, right? If your idea of a good date is not being killed and eaten, you'll never be disappointed.

This is Fiction, and the truth is whatever you make it. You can interpret the situation in any way you want, and all of the scenarios could be real -- and what's more, depending on how you act now, any one of them could become real.

So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?

It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed when in reality you're all tiresomely similar in outlook, needs and motivation, and differ only by peculiar habits, generally shaped by geographical circumstances.

There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook.

I was glad to see I had only witnessed Dad's death and not the end of his life, as the two I learned are barely related at all.

Clarke's Second Law of Egodynamics: "For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.