Quotes About Perspective

I'm sorry," I heard her say. "One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

This might seem excessive; ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection

He didn't know, of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, the weight and the dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the colour of grief is common to us all. 'I know,' he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.

And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child.

Lo lamento -le oí decir-. Nos acostumbramos tanto a nuestros propios horrores que olvidamos el efecto que pueden tener en otras personas.

The doctor knew his wife was beautiful, but they had been married too long for it to make any difference to him.

Consider bonsai There but for constricting bowl Would be a giant.

We have to work extra hard, because we in America are very ethnocentric--we think our culture is superior. Why's that? It's because we've got moon rocks, and nobody else has moon rocks.

I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

I was learning that just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

The boundaries that divide these worlds help define within each of them radically different ways of perceiving what it is possible to be or to become, of perceiving what it is possible to aspire to or not.

Toma de la vida todo lo que te dé, sea lo que sea, siempre que te interese y te pueda dar cierto placer.

Again, the Latinos who became Americans in 1848 were not hurt; they were helped.

In college I read John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, which contains this thrilling declaration: "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."23 We seem to have gone, in one generation, from the bracing atmosphere of Mill's On Liberty to the dark, dank atmosphere of Orwell's 1984.

How interesting that the Democrat, Martin Luther King, is identified with a principle that the Republican, Frederick Douglass, expressed even more eloquently so much earlier. How bizarre that the Democrats are presumed to be the party of civil rights when the very content of civil rights was formulated and developed by the GOP.

Even so, the proposal is interesting because Jackson was a Democrat—the founding father of the Democratic Party—while Tubman was a Republican. Admittedly

Even though JFK fought in World War II, he retained a soft spot for Hitler as late as 1945, when he described him as the "stuff of legends . . . Hitler will emerge from the hate that now surrounds him and come to be regarded as one of the most significant figures to have lived."36

Dinty W. Moore

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.

Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

People do look different with their eyes closed, their features seem so much more sculptured.