Quotes About Perspective

Cada ciudad recibe su forma del desierto al que se opone; y así ven el camellero y el marinero a Despina, ciudad fronteriza entre dos desiertos.

L'uomo contento non aveva camicia.

Amid all the extraordinary events you were witness to in your lifetime, the most extraordinary was that everything went on, not that everything was collapsing?

They have known her since she was a girl, they know everything there is to know about her, some of them may have been involved with her, now water under the bridge, over and done with; in other words, there is a veil of other images that settles on her image and blurs it, a weight of memories that keep me from seeing her as a person seen for the first time, other people's memories suspended like the smoke under the lamps.

Llega un momento de la vida en que de la gente que uno ha conocido son más los muertos que los vivos. Y la gente se niega a aceptar otras fisionomías, otras expresiones: En todas las caras nuevas que encuentra, imprime los viejos calcos, para cada una encuentra una cara que se le adapta mejor.

La forza dell'eremita si misura non tanto da quanto lontano è andato a stare, ma dalla poca distanza che gli basta per staccarsi dalla città, senza mai perderla di vista

Le nostre distanze un po' s'accorciavano un po' s'allungavano ma ormai era chiaro che l'uno non avrebbe mai raggiunto l'altro né mai l'altro l'uno. Di giocare a rincorrerci avevamo perso ogni gusto, e del resto non eravamo più bambini, ma ormai non ci restava altro da fare.

O romance que mais me apetecia ler neste momento deveria ter só como força motriz a vontade de contar, de acumular histórias sobre histórias, sem pretender impor uma visão do mundo, só fazer assistir ao seu crescimento, como uma planta, como que um emaralhado de ramos e folhas...

Life is neither good nor bad; it is original.

V jedné jediné mali?kosti se s Augustou neshodujeme, a to v názoru, jak zacházet se zlobivými dÄ›tmi: já si myslím, že bolest dítÄ›te je ménÄ› d?ležitá než naÅ¡e a že je lepÅ¡í zp?sobit bolest dítÄ›ti, jestliže to dospÄ›lého uÅ¡etÃ…â"¢í velké mrzutosti, kdežto ona se domnívá, že jsme dítÄ› zplodili, a tak je musíme taky snáÅ¡et.

je tam také pokus o báse? vÄ›novanou ... mouÅ¡e. Kdybych nevÄ›dÄ›l, jak se vÄ›ci mají, Ã…â"¢ekl bych, že ty verÅ¡e sepsala nÄ›jaká ctihodná sle?na, která tyká tvor?m, o nichž pÄ›je; ale protože jsem ji složil já, nezbývá mi než v??it, že byl-li jsem já schopen n??eho takového, pak už je každý schpen vÅ¡eho.

L'inno alla vita fatto dal morituro è una cosa molto simpatica per coloro che lo guardano morire ed è anche vero che molti moribondi spendono l'ultimo fiato per dire quella che a loro sembra la causa per cui muoiono, innalzando così un inno alla vita degli altri che sapranno evitare quell'accidente.

You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

Her vanity did not worry him since he profited by it so much;

Every one is right in there mind.

The circumference of love depends on the angle you see it from, I learned in the course of that madcap week after Father proposed to Rose.

hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole.

The past casts a tricky shadow

Even at her worst she made you think, and that's worth something in a person.

Upon the high seas is the wrong way of saying it, a horizon of ocean makes shallow the place of an onlooker.

It is said it takes a good storyteller to turn ears into eyes, but luckily life itself sometimes performs that trick on us.

Like I said, one man's pornography is another man's brass reading lamp with the articulated adjustable arm and three-way light bulb.

Naturally, people — especially in America — live in the moment and, given the "crisis" orientation of cable news, think that [the 2000s are] the worst period the country has ever gone through. Not really.

Leadership does not depend on being right.