Quotes About Perspective

You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together—until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.

Children always grow faster than their parents' image of them.

I now know that my pain is not more sacred, my suffering is not more noble, and the injustice I endure is not more ill-deserved than someone else's.

The book doesn't preach; it just offers up another way of looking at life.

With a freedom unavailable to me as a historian, my imagination was feeding off history that I had written.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it

Zoals we het verleden nu beschrijven was het niet, en zoals het was zullen we het niet kunnen beschrijven.

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

I don't make a film to make people like it. I make a film to make people think

In search of the past, I have travelled halfway around the globe, from Canada to Afghanistan, from a world of peace, material comfort and technology to a country that lives in the shadow of its history - a place whose only relevance to the rest of the world depends on the value and extent of a Westerner's life and "security". It may be illusionary, self-indulgent or bizarre, but I still think digging into the grave of history might lead to an understanding of the present.

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

I bet you think fellas are the ones to remember a girl -- don't you?" He shook his head hurriedly, that he'd always thought that. "Fellas have all the fun 'n she just sees one right after another, so it seems like HE'D remember her, better 'n SHE'D remember him, only it works the other way around. I ain't forgot one single fella, all these years. But I bet there ain't TWO 'd know me from a big of bananas this minute.

Women need a reason to have sex; men need only a place.

Kate had never been married, so she had no way of knowing if I was a normal husband. This has been good for our marriage.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Nothing is black or white.

I remember Mac retorting that hundreds of years ago there was a Hindi word for a craft that flew in the air, long before the airplane was invented, but that did not mean that airplanes existed in ancient India.

Niente come tornare in un luogo rimasto immutato ci fa scoprire quanto siamo cambiati...