Quotes About Perspective

There is no doubt that the Old Testament is a physiological and anatomical textbook to those capable of reading it from a scientific viewpoint.

Where it concerned history, she saw things that people seldom did.

I jump over dead bodies, and in my mind flashes a thought: how quickly men become accustomed to things which, at one time, they would have found impossible to imagine.

The story is much bigger than they ever thought it was. He says to his nephew Richard, you cannot tell people just part of the tale and then stop, or just tell them the parts you choose. They have seen their religion painted on the walls of churches, or carved in stone, but now God's pen is poised, and he is ready to write his words in the books of their hearts.

I'm just like a dot separating two sentences swinging between the past and present of my life

Le voyageur change ses yeux, le touriste ses billets !

Elle avait cette bonhomie exaspérante de ceux qui pensent, par tradition familiale ou faiblesse d'esprit, que la vie est simple pour peu qu'on sache la prendre du bon côté...

A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present, instead of their own. Those photographers are blind.

Poema de beco Que importa a paisagem, a Glória, a baía a linha do horizonte? -O que vejo é o beco.

Que hoy parezcan importarnos más los líos de faldas de nuestros gobernantes que, digamos, el renacimiento del racismo en Alemania o la libre escogencia en materia de aborto en los EEUU, no es porque tengamos vocación de "tierrúos", sino porque lo somos.

My favorite summary of the concept of defining your own responsibility for the problems of others was given in a joke, current several years ago. After being surrounded by 10,000 hostile Indians, the Lone Ranger turned to Tonto and remarked, "I guess this is it, Kimo Sabe. It looks like we have had it," whereupon Tonto, surveying the impending disaster, turned and replied, "What do you mean we, white man?

Si la verdad no puede ser contada, arréglala para que se pueda».

No, yo no me arrepiento de nada. Cada vez me convenzo más de que el sexo es la inocencia misma.

Pero ya es sabido que la elocuencia está en el oído de quien oye.

la ragione e il torto non si dividon mai con un taglio cosí netto, che ogni parte abbia soltanto dell'una o dell'altro.

Siempre hay alguien que las ha pasado más putas que tú.

Te dan sabiduría los libros, porque retratan el alma de las personas, te ayudan a pensar, a reflexionar a ver la vida desde distintos puntos de vista, a darte cuenta de tus fallos, a descubir tus propios sentimientos, a buscar tu camino...

the mention of age is only a reference point in the observation of the self.

I already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies I couldn't possibly meet anyone else.

Zapewne, gdyby?my nawet uznali, ?e historia do niczego poza tym nie s?u?y, nale?a?oby na jej plus zapisa? to, ?e jest bardzo zajmuj?ca (...).

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

Henri Nouwen once told the story of a research professor who was always complaining about interruptions in his work, until one day he came to the realization that interruptions were his work.

The music we listen to, the books we read, the television programs we watch, all communicate to us a philosophy of life.

when one expects pure and unmixed suffering, the smallest [10] joy becomes an unhoped-for surprise.