Quotes About Perspective

He saw that the highest compliment a white Englishman can give himself is the assertion that he is "color-blind," by which he means he has been able to overlook the fact of your color—to look past it—to the "you" beneath.

The principles of Christianity and Sod's Law (also known as Murphy's Law) are the same: Everything happens to me, for me.

He had an absolute empathy for everybody, Magid. And it was an unbelievable pain in the arse.

See what you've done there is you've transformed an act of the perpetrator into another person's being. I said, You don't say to a witch: the reason they're dunking you is because you're a witch. You say, the reason they're dunking you is these motherfuckers believe in witchcraft!

The happy ending is never universal. Someone is always left behind.

After all, you can storm the house of a novel like Barthes, rearranging the furniture as you choose, or you can enter on your knees, like the pilgrim Nabokov thought you were, and try to figure out the cunning design of the place - the house will stand either way.

I felt I was losing track of my physical location, rising above my body, viewing my life from a very distant point, hovering over it.

She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn't time for anything else

No one is more ingenious than the poor, wherever you find them. When you are poor every stage has to be thought through. Wealth is the opposite. With wealth you get to be thoughtless.

It had to do with emotion. Whatever I was feeling I was able to express very clearly, I could "put it over.

Children are so narcissistic: nothing about other people ever really occurs to them, least of all about their parents.

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he is a saint or they are not telling the whole story.

Ten ?wiat nie zginie od bomby atomowej, jak prorokuj? gazety, ale umrze ze ?miechu, ze strywalizowania, z obracania wszystkiego w ?art, na domiar z?ego w kiepski ?art.

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him." —Brendan Francis

as it is. There's good an

perhaps he and this man, alone on the desert, driven there by life's mysterious and remorseless motive, were to see each other through God's eyes. His

He was thinking that if he had his life to live over again he would begin at once to find happiness in other people's happiness.

You play grown-up long enough and you lose your perspective on right and wrong

dar câteva zile mai târziu nu s-a mai preocupat de chestiunea asta, fiindc? grijile nu se pot purta necontenit, întotdeauna ne ocup?m numai de grijile cele mai urgente È™i cele mai prezente, umbl?m prin lume cu un p?ianjen uriaÈ™ pe cap È™i nu È™tim c? e acolo.

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

This is madness. You're making it into something it's not. It's all in your mind. Sheba was about to protest, and then she laughed. Isn't that the worst place it could be?

Men, she said rueful, are the most absurd creatures on this green earth. But there are camels, Gabriel pointed out. Believe me, she answered. I've taken camels into consideration.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.