Quotes About Perspective

Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.

Ne dis pas : je vis maintenant, je mourrai demain. Ne divise pas la réalité entre la vie et la mort. Dis : maintenant je vis et je meurs.

Nada te asombre por comparación con el recuerdo; asómbrate de todo por la novedad de la ignorancia.

I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.

Imagine: If a man who shakes hands up and down meets a man who shakes hands side to side, what will happen? Nathan looked perplexed but he extended his hand all the same. As they shook, their clasped hands went round and round in circles.

Was there a straight line on earth before we drew one?

traveling allows you to discover things that remain hidden during the normal routine of daily life.

Más tarde habría de definir la existencia de las mujeres en los hombres como en elpatio de atrás de sus mentes

Porque has de saber, Ana, que la intimidad para los hombres es la cama misma, no como para nosotras que es después de la cama, por lo tanto, mucho más larga

La historia se ha escrito al margen de nosotras, pero nosotras mismas la hemos moldeado desde atrás.

Cuando una se acostumbra al horror, éste deja de verse, por tanto de existir. El horror mismo lleva a perder las proporciones del horror.

Jak mÄ› dojímá ženský údÄ›l. Jakým smutkem mÄ› napl?uje. Pro? jen polovina lidstva nese na bedrech tak ohromnou tíhu, zatímco ta druhá odpo?ívá? Ne, nejsem blázen, Ã…â"¢íká si NataÅ¡a. Vím, co Ã…â"¢íkám. Vím, pro? to Ã…â"¢íkám.

Parece que los hombres viven las relaciones y son las mujeres las que las piensan

Everybody is convinced they have seen something others have not seen, and they delude themselves that they have thought things that other have it thought, but this is just because someone has taken the trouble to tell an ordinary story in an extraordinary way.

The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.

If large portions of the world remain unseen or inaccessible to us, we must consider the meaning of the word "reality" with great care.

We explain the world the way we think about it. There's no way out of our minds.

No es cuánto vivimos: supongo que en gran parte es cómo vivimos cada momento. Cada hora. Cada día".

and [thanks] to Ludmila Parks for explaining to me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have read the Brothers Karamazov and those who have not.

This steak wouldn't have tasted nearly as good if I'd been lying dead at the bottom of a ravine. I lifted my martini and drank to that.

Even a clock that's broken is right twice a day.

Besides, it's possible he's not guilty." I laughed so hard I had to put down my fries. I

No civil servant takes a window for granted.

But you have to have been on the downside looking up at the face of the law before you realize how thin those defenses really are. Once you've been there, you can't honestly begrudge a defendant any help he can muster. That