Quotes About Perspective

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.

You're just as shitty as we are

But I hate being a grandfather. It's indecent. In my mind's eye, I'm still twenty-five. Thirty-three max. Certainly not sixty-seven, reeking of decay and dashed hopes. My breath sour. My limbs in dire need of a lube job. And now that I've been blessed with a plastic hip-socket replacement, I'm no longer even biodegradable. Environmentalists will protest my burial.

C'è chi colleziona francobolli, o scatole di fiammiferi» mi ha detto una volta. «Tu collezioni rancori».

Nothing is absolute any longer, Mr. Panofsky. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.…" "Still, that is no answer." "What if there are no answers? Or if the answers offered are not suitable – what then? Perhaps there are only more questions.

One final thought. In the years leading up to my trial, whenever I was caught in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the highway leading to my cottage, creeping along behind a battered, rust eaten pick-up truck with a sticker on its rear bumper that read JESUS SAVES, I used to think don't count on it, buster. Now I am no longer sure.

Books are like candy some can be sweet some can be sour, but no you cannot eat them

0.00000001% of what's happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works

We never fully appreciate today until tomorrow.

The question is," Harry whispered, trying desperately to joke, "whether it's better to be dead from the neck up or the neck down," and the doctor smiled, knowing Harry was protecting himself with his sense of irony.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

We see things not as they are, we see them as WE are.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

You can find joy in practically any situation if you are open to the experience of happiness.

You are a product of your own personal environment. What you have observed and what you have been taught affects your level of expectancy and can hinder you from receiving the miracle you need.

A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.

I've never seen real dead people. Real dead people are different from dead people in stories. When you see real dead people you want to cry.

The feeling that one must be an authority in a subject to say anything about it is unfounded. We are all laymen outside the field of our own specialty,

Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.

The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn't it?

History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future

The truth ? the truth my dear Ashely is a luxury available only to those who are not involved in its consequences

Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.