Quotes About Perspective

Fiction is a tower of glass built from a million tiny truths, grains of sand fused together to make a single, gleaming lie.

From a certain height, everyone looks the same - men, women, villains, kings - as if rank and fortune were simply an accident of perspective.

I've never viewed you as an enemy, more an adversary...

The advantage of travel is that after a while you begin to realize that wherever you go, most people aren't really all that much different.

The day stretched out in front of him like an empty road in the desert.

I don't understand a word you're saying, snapped Odin. That's because you're throttlin' me, sir, said Sugar. Odin loosened his grip.

I have never belonged to a tribe. It gives me a different perspective. Perhaps if I did, I too would feel ill at ease in Les Marauds. But I have always been different. Perhaps that's why I find it easier to cross the narrow boundaries between one tribe and the next. To belong so often means to exclude; to think in terms of us and them - to little words that, juxtaposed, so often lead to conflict.

Monsieur Moscat .... You won't ever guess HIS favorite, [Lucie] says. He hasn't gotten one. [Vianne:] I find that difficult to believe, I smile. Everyone has a favorite. Even Monsieur Muscat. Lucie considers this for a moment. Maybe his favorite is the one he takes from someone else, she tells me limpidly.

The road to adulthood is filled with contradictions, and I was still young enough to half believe the lies with which that road is paved.

No one sees clearly during a war. History gives perspective

Caelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currant. They change the sky, not their souls, that run across the ocean.

A história de toda a gente começa a meio da de outra pessoa, com meadas confusas de narrativa à espera de serem desenroladas. E de quem é esta história afinal?

Vraj má ?lovek len jeden život. Na internete zistíte, že to nie je pravda. Zadajte si do Googlu svoje meno a uvidíte, ko?kí ?alÅ¡í ho nosia. Sú to ?udia, ktorými by sme mohli byÃ…Â¥: úbožiak, Å¡portovec, takmer slávny herec, odsúdenec ?akajúci na smrÃ…Â¥, slávny kuchár, osoba s rovnakým dátumom narodenia ako vy... tiene toho, ?o mohlo byÃ…Â¥, keby bolo vÅ¡etko trochu inak.

Bet mano pasaulis yra ?ia. Galb?t jis ir mažas, ta?iau net šimt? met? gyvendamas aš neišsemsiu visos jo begalin?s ?vairov?s.

I happen to know that history is nothing but a spin and metaphor, which is what all yarns are made up of, when you strip them down to the underlay. And what makes a hit or a myth, of course, is how that story is told, and by whom.

Nada tenho que ver com a ciência; mas, se tantos homens em quem supomos juízo são reclusos por dementes, quem nos afirma que o alienado não é o alienista?

Assim, apanhados pela mãe, éramos dois e contrários, ela encobrindo com a palavra o que eu publicava pelo silêncio.

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.