Quotes About Perspective

Epictetus stated, "When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person didn´t want something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken by anxiety?

I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit. from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

N-am nimic impotriva romantismului. Il accept, asa cum accept desenele de pe o farfurie ori dantela unei lenjerii. E frumosul adaugat. Trebuie ca mai intai sa ne ocupam de cele esentiale. Avem dreptul la dantele dupa ce vor rezolva fondul problemei, esentialul.

Muito mais trágico me parece o destino de quem atravessa a vida sem se molhar, como se os efeitos (felizes ou nefastos) escorressem sobre a pele como água sobre as plumas de um pato.

Change is seen as something evil only by those who have lost their youth or sense of humor.

But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.

St. Thomas Aquinas, she knew, was reputed to say that he feared the man who had just one book, and she understood what he meant about the narrowness of outlook that could give. However, she thought, perhaps a man with one well-loved book might be a more rounded individual than the man who possessed hundreds and never opened any of them.

Det gjelder å komme på det rene med hvor i tiden man er.

Some day, I must ask him what it's like to be married to someone who, eyes narrowed in thought, peers at him over the tops of sociology articles with titles like "Who Gets the Best Deal from Marriage: Women or Men?" We've had our disagreements, of course. When, for example, are a few dirty cups a symbol of the exertion of male privilege, and when are they merely unwashed dishes?

I myself went into a hospital and came out French.

It's funny I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore. There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that.

It's funny I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

Life is too important to take seriously.

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

All sin is equally wrong, but not all sin is equally bad.

The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.

The Bible is thought of as authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything. We do not mean that it speaks of football games, of atoms, etc., directly, but we do mean that it speaks of everything either directly or by implication.

There's an innocuous explanation for everything. Everything is a coin that has two sides to it, and one side is innocuous but the other can be ominous. ("New York Blues")

There was no time to weigh chances. There was no such thing as chances anyway, in the distorted perspective of the weed fumes.

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock")