Quotes About Perspective

Las Vegas seems to exist only in the eye of the beholder.

Everyone has his or her Frrance, his or her Paris, just as everyone has his or her London or New York. This stubborn habit strikes me as self-protection, an old tribal instinct for never showing one's back. Not knowing, not having gotten there first (and pocketing the goods), seem to implicate us as fools or rubes.

Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.

No em clavis un sermó; els sermons són desoladors perquè son un ranxo, igual per a tothom, quan cada u sent el seu mal com a únic i intransferible.

A story is already over before we hear it. That is how the teller knows what it means.

If you saw through everything, it made it hard to figure out what to do with yourself.

People always went for the romantic interpretation; you couldn't blame them for that. What they felt most strongly seemed most true. But other forces were operating in the world.

A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.

You don't know what you're going to be faithful to in this world, do you? It was true I didn't have what other people had, I knew that, and yet I couldn't think of a single other life I envied - no, I couldn't - though I knew better than to try to get anyone to believe it.

Get over yourself - You are not the center of the universe.' 'Understand that life itself (and emotions) are impermanent.

Get over yourself - You're not the only pebble on the beach.' 'Understand that life itself (and emotions) are impermanent.

She saw. And, painful though the knowledge was, it was also a relief. She had not failed with Arthur, nor had Morgan stolen him from her. He had belonged to Morgan long before she came into his life.

The difference between Morgan and Gwenhwyfar, he found himself thinking, was that while both knew how to give, it was Morgan who knew how to give up.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too. [ Existence (1975)]

This is awful," Sally said. "Why should it be so painful?" "Because you don't realize how important your human landscape is until bits drop away." He gripped her hand. "It's worse when you get older. In your twenties, you never think—

To think that Christ gave us so much only to have us experience so little brings tears to my eyes.

When Tracy was three she looked up at her aunt and asked, Why don't we have dessert for breakfast?

Being mature isn't what it's cracked up to be.

A demon, if you prefer the term; although to be honest, the difference between god and a demon is really only a matter of perspective.

What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place

There's an old Northlands saying that goes like this: When lies don't help. try telling the truth. Loki knew it well, of course, but preferred his own version, which was: When lies don't help, tell better lies.

I don't believe God really cares what you eat, or what you wear, or whom you love. I think that if God made the stars, He must have a greater perspective.