Quotes About Perspective

You're still a good guy, right? You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me." "I'm thinking about changing it to 'them' and 'us,' for simplicity's sake

I mean, maybe it isn't all about you. Or at least, not only about you." I stared at her blankly for a moment. "But for that to be true," I said, "I would have to not be the center of the universe.

If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.

There is but one reality, that is true -- but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster.

I suddenly felt a bit more humble. It was probably good for me.

What I believe doesn't matter, Mr. Dresden. What is important is that a lot of the scum out there believe in it. It affects the way they think and operate. If I could make use of your advice to solve this case, I would, the same as any other law officer.

What's that all about?" "Don't ask me," I told her. "I'm gay now.

You think you know the world," the old man said. "You're barely in it yet. You ain't seen what it gets like. How bad it can get. How cruel.

There is but one reality; that is true - but the two of you experience it in slightly different ways. The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass.

You'd think we would hold life in greater value than we do.

So I, uh, sort of threw myself out of the passenger seat of a moving car. Don't look at me like that. I'm telling you, it made sense at the time.

Murphy squeezed back. "Harry. You can't fix tomorrow until it gets here." "Which is weird, because you can screw it up from decades away.

I had never much believed in God. Well, that's not quite true. I believed that there was a God, or something close enough to it to warrant the name—if there were demons, there had to be angels, right? If there was a Devil, somewhere, there had to be a God. But He and I had never really seen things in quite the same terms.

The belts do more than make you fuzzy, Denton. They change the way you think. The way you act.

That things will unfold as they are meant to," Forthill said. "That even in the face of an immediate ugliness, the greater picture will resolve into something all the more beautiful.

Apocalypse isn't an event," Nemesis murmured. "It is a frame of mind.

I guess being dead gives you a whole different perspective on life.

You have to retrace your steps and see how you got to where you are, the bird said sarcastically, which, I might add, is a pretty pathetic situation.

In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange.

There's only one thing to do in crisis like this - SLEEP ON IT! Garfield, the cat.

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all of our investigative questioning, done when our kids might be telling the truth, may breed a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's been said that if we wrongly accuse our kids twice for the same thing, they'll set out to prove us right. You can almost hear them say with a sigh, "You think I do it anyway, so I might as well do it.

We might say, "My kids used to listen to me, but now they won't. Boy, have they ever changed." Wrong again. They haven't changed one iota. They're still listening to a voice outside their heads—it's just not ours anymore.

You are in the world, but not to be tied to the world.