Quotes About Perspective

è necessario vivere più a lungo di chi potrebbe dire qualcosa sul nostro conto, per non lasciargli l'ultima parola (76).

His death was imminent and we were all anticipating it, including him, but we never gave any thought to the fact that this was true for all of us, too: our death was imminent, only we were not anticipating it ... yet.

Mariah did not seem to notice what she had in common with the other diners, or what I had in common with the waiters. She acted in her usual way, which was that the world was round and we all agreed on that, when I knew that the world was flat and if I went to the edge I would fall off.

For my mother would never come to see that perhaps my needs were more important than her wishes.

if all the things she wanted to save in the world were saved, she might find herself in reduced circumstances; I couldn't bring myself to ask her to examine Lewis's daily conversations with his stockbroker, to see if they bore any relation to the things she saw passing away forever before her eyes.

It wasn't her fault. It wasn't my fault. But nothing could change the fact that where she saw beautiful flowers I saw sorrow and bitterness.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

Opinions, opinions, the King once said, what would the world cherish most, if not for my opinions?"

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

He wanted to make a copy to send back to his sister – the one who'd been smart enough to finish college and was working for Weyland-Yutani as a forensic xenobiologist. She made disgustingly good money. Still, he got laid a lot more often. It was all a matter of perspective.

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

If everything in the past has value, then there's no reason for regret, ever.

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the ameteur for three, or the cry of the critc for five. (from Whistler vs. Ruskin, 1878)

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

And because they were always there, and always seemed to be on his side, they could always keep him sufficiently deceived to come back for more than anyone in his right senses would come back for.

We just each believe what we're able

Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go.

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.

Whenever you interpret anything, you can read it two ways: in such a way that your interpretation creates mercy, and in such a way that it creates sacrifice.

Every burden is a blessing.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.