Quotes About Perspective

I think, How small my life seemed then. How little I wanted for myself. How little I expected of myself and those who claimed to love me.

They weren't a centuries old hunter and a seventeen year old girl, sitting here at the edge of the world. They were just two people, Bonnie and Damon.

It might be wishful thinking, but the very name 'jungle' seemed to reflect a wry left-field humour. Ask half a dozen people how the name came about, though, and you'll get six different answers – and they'll all be true.

Lumea nu merit? sacrificiul de a tr?i pentru ea, cu atât mai pu?in de a muri.

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

We were young. Everyone was young in those days. That's the main complaint you hear from people who are getting old. You stop seeing young people. You begin to wonder if there are any left and whether there were only young people when you were young.

We had grown up believing white to be the color of all the important things, like ice cream, aspirin, ribbon, the moon, the stars

Hunting after arguments to make good one side of a question, and wholly to neglect and refuse those which favor the other side ... [is] willfully to misguide the understanding; and is so far from giving truth its due value, it wholly debases it.

The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.

The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

I feel now as though I've been sitting all my life inside a box, and suddenly someone is lifting the lid and I can look up and see the stars.

College guys are different. They're looking for quality.