Quotes About Perspective

Machig merged the two into a single word, god-demon, indicating that gods and demons are two sides of the same coin, that our hopes and fears are inextricably locked together.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.

You often hear people say the news is full of lies. But most of the time that's not exactly right. Much of what you see on television or read in The New York Times is in fact true in the literal sense, But that doesn't make it true. It's not true. At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie. A lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind. Facts have been withheld on purpose along with proportion and perspective. You are being manipulated.

Because history is told by the victors. Everything else falls away.

Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.

Just so you know," Rebecca says, staring at nothing. "The confusion doesn't go away. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. You just have to figure out how to take that confusion, and turn it into something beautiful.

when asked how he could remain so calm in a clutch situation: "Ten million years from now, when the sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen snowball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care whether or not I got this guy out.

What is with you and faces?" Qibli said. "You should try threatening someone's elbows or ankles once in a while, just for a change of pace.

I think they should rename the place Unnecessary Violent Overreaction." In

Tangerines were not quite the epic change Blue wanted to see in the world.

Want me to drop a mango on her?" Sundew offered. "You have a MANGO?" Swordtail asked indignantly. "No, you acorn. It's a metaphorical mango." "I don't see how metaphorical mangoes are going to do us any good," Swordtail muttered.

Were you raised under a mountain?

Wow, you have a very confused and amusing view of this situation," Peril said. "We're not your prisoners. You couldn't take me prisoner even with an army of IceWings. Not even if all of them had arrogant foreheads like yours. There isn't actually a world in which you need to decide whether to 'release' me. I released myself a long time ago, but thanks anyway.

It was sort of difficult to rage-fly on the power of hating HiveWings when there were two HiveWings flying right alongside her, being extremely noisy and distracting

Well, thank you," she said. "Although I'm going to vote against calling it 'magical death spit,' please.

Daffodil says it's weird that he has a big shiny treasure but I never get to see it. Daffodil says maybe it doesn't exist at all or maybe he lost it or something. Daffodil says I should hold my breath until you let me see it, but I practiced and it gave me a super big headache so I'mma not do that." "Daffodil has so many helpful thoughts," her mother observed.

There's more to his story. There's always more to everyone's story, if you bother to find out what it is.

They needed to be STUFFED INTO IGLOOS until they came to their senses.

She wasn't a great mother, but she was still her mother. "If we run away," Foeslayer said, "your mother will kill mine, and the other two NightWings as well. She'll think I convinced you to run off with me and she'll blame them.

Oooo, the perfect title for my memoir," she said, grinning. "Right about Almost Everything, by Cricket.

That's true." Clay's wings drooped. "It might not be what you're hoping for, Tsunami. Like finding out my mother sold me for a cow." "Hey." said Glory. "It was at least two cows.

So let me get this straight," she said. "You're telling me nothing about why you're here, but you expect me to bring you into our kingdom and buy you a drink. NightWings really do think highly of themselves, don't they?" "What if I bought you that drink?" he offered.

Inside her head, Darkstalker sighed. I literally can't see any future where I can talk you out of this. Oh, good, Moon thought, Then take a break and don't try.

They were two SandWings, swooping lower as they got closer. For an uneasy moment, Glory thought they must have seen her. But they whooshed past without even glancing down, and she realized they were aiming at something beyond and behind her.