Quotes About Perspective

Sin embargo, ninguna de estas alternativas, tomadas por separado, eran ciertas; aunque, tomadas en conjunto, hubiese cierto punto de verdad en ambas.

When you climb to the top of the hill and look down you can see everything, just like Jesus on the pinnacle except it's not very tempting.

Life on Earth is quite a bargain. Dreams, for one, don't charge admission. Illusions are costly only when lost.

a stone / which in its own archaic, simpleminded way / sees life as a chain of failed attempts.

Buscar sinceridad en unas memorias carece de sentido. Mejor sería preguntarse qué versión de uno mismo y del mundo ha escogido el autor, dado que siempre hay posibilidad de elegir.

How many, after a shorter or longer life (if they still see a difference), good, because it's beginning, bad, because it's over (if they don't prefer the reverse)

When they said he didn't exist, he couldn't die of grief, so he had to be born. He's already out there living somewhere; he blinks his little eyes and grows.

Ante esta visión siempre me abandona la certeza de que lo importante es más importante que lo insignificante.

No he vivido más que tú, sino sólo lo bastante para pensar de lejos.

Å»ycie, cho?by i dÅ'ugie, zawsze bÄ™dzie krótkie.

Niech ludzie nie znaj?cy mi?o?ci szcz??liwej twierdz?, ?e nigdzie nie ma mi?o?ci szcz??liwej. Z t? wiar? l?ej im b?dzie i ?y?, i umiera?.

A mnie tak si? z?o?y?o, ?e jestem przy tobie. I doprawdy nie widz? w tym nic zwyczajnego.

M??czyzna miaÅ' poglÄ…dy – kobieta nadal tylko widzimisiÄ™, odpowiednikiem jego silnej woli byÅ' jej babski upór, a jego przezornoÅ›ci – jej wyrachowanie, a w sytuacjach, w których m??czyznÄ™ zwano taktykiem, kobieta pozostawaÅ'a intrygantkÄ…

Las aves domésticas se distinguen de las de corral en que las guardamos en jaulas exclusivamente para satisfacer el placer estético. El nuestro, claro. Del placer que sienten las aves condenadas a ver a sus dueños, no sé nada.

And how can we talk of order overall when the very placement of the stars leaves us doubting just what shines for whom?

You were saved because you were the first. You were saved because you were the last. Alone. With others. On the right. The left. Because it was raining. Because of the shade. Because the day was sunny.

nonrequired quotes Because the goal of relaxation is to get us to the point of where nothing bothers us. The ideal promulgated by this kind of popular how-to book is simply a healthy, well-rested idiot. 194 … don't I have bigger problems than the troubles of tailors on the Nile? Of course I have bigger problems. But that's no reason not to have small ones. 233-4 Non Required Reading

All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other teller.

Harper saw a dark young guy, trying to stop from laughing so much. By some trick of perspective the tracers illuminated Sam's profile with a halo of fireflies. Something about him touched Harper, so that long after the gunship had swung low and away Sam's image remained on his retina.

The world was indeed a kind of screen and did not manifest itself other than by passing me on and on—I was just the bouncing ball that objects played with!

Ile? zdaÅ" mo?na utworzy? z dwudziestu czterech liter alfabetu? Ile? znaczeÅ" mo?na wyprowadzi? z setek chwastów, grudek i innych drobiazgów?

Tuose puslapiuose tvinksi toks gyvas laikme?io pul­sas, kad mÅ«s? Å¡irdyse kyla tikrumo alkis, gyvenimo ir tegu netobulo jo realizavimo geismas. Ta?iau gyvenimas lieka ta­rytum už stiklo – nutolÄ™s – viskas lyg jau ne mÅ«s?, lyg žvelg­tum pro traukinio langÄ….

We were inclined to believe that the nose was not for the snuff box but the snuff box for the nose.

The eyes of boredom, old buddy, are bigger than those of fear! When you're bored, God only knows what you might imagine!