Quotes About Perspective

She glanced round the garden. It was perfect, she thought. They were always gloomy about it, her mother and father. Terrible, terrible, they said - as though a few old weeds mattered! She liked it shaggy, its lawns white with daisies, the golden rod and the aster making tunnels of green gloom through which one could creep comfortably. But in the grown-up world, isolated behind the glass partition, such things counted.

Before the war cut her life so sharply in two, she had cherished her possessions jealously. ... Now that she had discovered the important truth that her flesh was as brittle as theirs and far more precious, the safety of china cupids had become irrelevant.

Do you think we've got control of everything here, because this place is small and simple and we're in charge of it? It's so obvious we're in control, I guess we may have forgotten we're not in control. And I wonder if those people on the Earth, because it was so clear they weren't in control, forgot that they were.

When you move something, you discover new meanings in it, Kristina thought, watching them.

Food is a constant flashpoint between mother and daughter. Aroon

Sometimes, maybe we don't know exactly what we have until someone shows us.

The world's perverse, but it could be worse.

As I was walking to my car, a crow that was sitting on a wall suddenly scooped down and did number two on my head. Luckily I was holding a newspaper on my head at that time because sun was very strong and I didn't want to become tanned. So thanks god my blow-dried hair didn't get spoiled. People say it is a good amen when a bird does potty on you, but I am sorry, what's so good about your head being used as a toilet?

If you think you are powerless, then you are

I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.

Tevis being childless meant you felt a little sorry for her, and a bit jealous. Probably the same way she felt about you.

Kadang keadaan ternyata tidak seburuk yang disangka. Kadang-kadang hal buruk yang disangka akan datang malah tidak datang sama sekali. Kalian hanya harus menunggu dan melihat keadaan.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men (page 80).

It was with a shock of pitying surprise that she realized, in later years, that the grown-ups had missed the paradise which the children found so easily.

I thought I was old, back then. I thought I was grown up. I didn't know all my big mistakes were up ahead of me, still to come. Always

Maybe da Vinci didn't serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.

Most non-Christian philosophies consider history to be the enemy of truth. Feminism shares this suspicion of history.

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.

We didn't call it World War I. How could we imagine there'd be a second?

As a father, he was generous. More or less. The "less" was because he never gave me what I wanted. He gave me only what he wanted me to have. I found this was often true with philanthropy and with love. The giver's desire and fulfillment played an important role.

We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!

Our illness is often our healing.

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.