Quotes About Perspective

If he thought using napkins to clean your hands and face was wasteful, she couldn't help but wonder what he would think of toilet paper.

Everything happens for a reason. My aunt Juanita lost her trailer in a tornado, but when she got her insurance settlement she got enough money to buy a new, black all-lace body suit. So she now sees the inside of lots of trailers. Dreams do come true.

I ain't the kind o' person who turns up her nose at what's served her, just cause it ain't something else. I ate what the Almighty served me, and filled it up just fine. Eat what you're served, child, and season it any way you like. You do that and you'll get along all right.

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

Beliefs create reality

I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214

I do not understand what makes mothers think they are walking-talking thermometers.But I think somewhere during the process of giving birth and changing diapers, they actually begin to belive they have this supernatural sense.

There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.

Let's face it, just about the only advantage I can think of being married at bloody fourteen is you can have sex without your parents minding.

Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's only one man's opinion.

We have been given two ears but a single mouth, in order that we may hear more and speak less.

to lose any language is to lose a unique way of knowing life.

Things you see from there are not what you see from here.

If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have... escaped.

I have realized that for those who live in the West, freedom is so often something they take for granted. It has always been there for them. It is their unnoticed, unrecognized, constant companion and friend. But for those of us who come from countries like Sudan, freedom is wonderful and precious.

that inconsistent of me? No—of course we must regret what we lose, but that does not mean that what we gain is worthless.

La vida és alegre o trista, segons com la miris. De vegades penses que no saps viure. O t'imagines que n'hi ha que són feliços i aleshores tot els sembla més bonic: potser un dia o altre et tocarà.

La seva vida potser sí que era una vida trista, però ¿no són tristes totes les vides es visquin com es visquin?

Reasonable, smart people disagree about what will happen in the future—in part because nobody can see the future.

Using a journalist's skepticism about what can go wrong can help us move from blind technological optimism to a more reasonable, balanced perspective

Here's an open secret of the big data world: all data is dirty. All of it.

data is socially constructed.

I couldn't help thinking, with the required pinch of rue and regret, how different my life would have been if I had been born homosexual in 1950 instead of...But that's a tiresome game, and I'm too old to play it.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself... If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.