Quotes About Perspective

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Heywood Broun

At school, your tests only have one right answer and you might get zero or half points if you put the wrong answer. But in what we call ''the real world'', things aren't so black and white, so you should think about things for yourself and express them in words or pictures. This is how you comminicate with people, with other people.

In vino Veritas. In Aqua satietas. In... What is the Latin for Tea? What! Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

It isn't a matter of how long, or even how much you know. It's a way of looking at things, how much you see and how you think. I suppose it's, well, perspective. . . When you start seein' five sides to a four-sided object, that's when you get the gray robe.

He had nothing against cops, per se—he had a cousin on the force in Philly, after all—but he never liked dealing with them directly

It's not easy to separate a person from their programming.

The very reason which repels some is precisely that which appeals to others.

I think now that this is the great division between people. There are people who find life hard and those who find it easy. There are those who have a natural, in-built, expectation of happiness, and there are those who feel that happiness is not to be expected: that it is not, in fact, one of the rights of man. Nor, God knows, one of the rights of women.

But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?" 398

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.

Why does everything you know, and everything you've learned, confirm you in what you believed before? Whereas in my case, what I grew up with, and what I thought I believed, is chipped away a little and a little, a fragment then a piece and then a piece more. With every month that passes, the corners are knocked off the certainties of this world: and the next world too.

Possibly it's something women do: spend time imagining what it's like to be each other. One can learn from that, he thinks.

Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives.

The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them.

This was the usual thing. What I asked for was facts: what I got was a sermon.

Sólo eres joven una vez en la vida, dicen, ¿pero no se alarga mucho el tiempo? Más años de los que puedes soportar.

Sometimes it is years before we can see who are the heroes in an affair and who are the victims.

So this morning--waking early, brooding on what Liz said last night--he wonders, why should my wife worry about women who have no sons? Possibly it's something women do: spend time imagining what it's like to be each other.

I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said.

For hundreds of years the monks have held the pen, and what they have written is what we take to be our history, but I do not believe it really is. I believe they have suppressed the history they don't like, and written one that is favourable to Rome.' Henry

Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.

You have always regarded women as disposable, my lord, and you cannot complain if in the end they think the same of you.