Quotes About Perspective

The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls

When you get older you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.

a person could walk around in a prison of his or her own making and never be behind bars.

It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, but if one more person said that to her, Jodi swore she was going to lose it.

There are three ways to argue with a woman. None of them work. —Dutch Callahan

What scale do you rate them on?" "I don't rate my lovers at all. Do you?" "You mean other than small, medium, and large?" she quipped.

when he was a little kid he'd had trouble understanding why those poor children in China were more important to them than he was.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book several times instead of just once.

We laughed harder than the humor deserved, which goes to show you no matter your age, you're closer to adolescence than you think.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning-because that ain't the time at all...when you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the "realists"!

What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--

Could love have only one side to it and still be love?

I know you don't think he's good enough for me, but then you don't think any man is good enough for me.

There's no such thing as perfection, and even if there were, I think it'd be rather boring.

She wondered if any of them had truly understood the cost of what they were asking of each other.

I understand why you did what you did. Perhaps a part of me even admires you for it. But I can't forgive you for it.

It was much less frustrating being the pursued rather than the pursuer.

The one thing I learned in my youth as a grave robber was that everyone looks the same when they're dead. We're all equal then. So when I meet a chap, sitting on his high horse, I imagine him dead. He's not quite so intimidating then.

Probabilmente no, quindi ti lascio con un piccolo consiglio, dato che conosci tanto bene le carte. La vita è come loro. Vincere non consiste nell'avere una buona mano, ma nel giocarne bene una mediocre.