Quotes About Perspective

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind's focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

Having personally kissed in zero gravity, I was initially amazed by the unexpected lack of attraction, from the sheer perspective of the mass magnetism.

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Perciò ho stabilito" concludeva "che il passato bisogna scordarselo, ce lo portiamo dietro ma non ci deve pesare. I morti che ci hanno fatto del bene, si ricompensano guardando in faccia i vivi.

La vita è una cella un po' fuori dell'ordinario, più uno è povero più si restringono i metri quadrati a sua disposizione.

Intanto, allontanandosi da Napoli, guardandola un'ultima volta dal finestrino del treno, fece questa riflessione: "Se non venivo qui a fare il soldato, chissà il mare quando l'avrei conosciuto". E fu, senza ch'egli se lo dicesse, un modo di consolarsi e di pensare che dopotutto, anche dall'esperienza più negativa e più vieta, qualcosa si riesce sempre a salvare.

E da un certo giorno in avanti, è come al primo canto del gallo; per bujo che sia, non è più notte, se aguzzi lo sguardo vedi baluginare l'alba, il ricordo ha una diversa consistenza.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

I stayed with my wife's mother during the war. I understood the war because I fought with my wife's mother.

Maturity means the ability to see what is important and what is not.

Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth--that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent and every setback insuperable?

He was, I told myself, a unique experience in my existence; I never think definitely of him as man or boy, as older or younger, taller or shorter than I am, but always of him as a mind in tune with mine, in which many of the notes are quite different from mine but are all in the same key.

It seems delightfully incongruous,' he wrote from Armentie'res, 'that there should be good shops and fine buildings and comfortable beds less than half an hour's walk from the trenches

When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.

I look wildly for facts and I can only find arguments.

Als je eenmaal van de bergtop omlaag hebt gekeken, is het moeilijk om tevreden in de vallei te blijven...

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to lie.

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.