Quotes About Perspective

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.

How do you know all these things?' He shrugged. 'It's boring being a goatherd. Nothing to do except watch goats. If I hadn't watched other creatures, I'd have gone mad.

Maybe there was symmetry everywhere, and the patterns of our days held no less certainty than the mathematical patterns of the universe. Maybe, in order to see the patterns, one simply needed to take a few steps back, turn the page upside down, approach everything from a different angle.

I had never really thought of children as people, just as mysterious and needy creatures on their way to something greater.

History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

Come on Eden. Turn that frown upside down. There's no reason for bad moods. It's a beautiful new day full of possibilities." "maybe for you.

If I need something you can't give, I need to walk away, because sooner or later, all I'll see is what you can't give. I won't be able to see what you can.

I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn't look too closely at another person's pain.

i'm never going to understand the Barrani." "You needn't sound so morose, Lord Kaylin. They are unlikely to understand you either." "Yes, but I'm unlikely to try to kill them for fun.

Can you hold off on the whole war thing until after I'm dead?

Hmph. She talked about Cameron's daddy like he's the only one in the wrong. I mean, sometimes you got to wonder who's got the biggest problem: the fool or the one who fell for him?

the truth isn't in the facts, and the facts don't always tell the truth. The truth is in the experience.

Some folk need a few good homeless, hungry, sleepless nights to make the voice of God real clear. Other folk need a soft bed and a warm meal before they can hear Him. He knows, and He has to let me know, too.

Old folk sure had a way of pointing out the obvious.

The worst thing about depression is how true your vision seems, like misery is the only correct perspective and everything you think when you're happy is a sham. I didn't even want to be happy anymore because I'd rather live in honest misery than fake bliss. I

The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in ways that bring forward the perspective of the world.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.

sixteenth-century philosopher Michel de Montaigne once wrote, "When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not playing with me rather than I with her?

I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.

Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It's a baseball game. A game. Who really cares? A bad throw? In the great scheme of things? A bad throw? Of course she didn't say that. She understood that your own errors always feel tragic.

Instead of the monotonous horizons of the far north, all the landscape around K2 has the richest variety of design, the greatest majesty of form and an infinite diversity of plane and perspective… The scale is far too vast for one to receive an impression of the whole at once. The eye can only take in single portions.