Quotes About Perspective

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

Money is the greatest concern for small characters, but is nothing but the smallest for great characters.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

When two words are identical, you must not take undue offence or think you have been wronged in terms of choice. Simplicity is a fine patience of meaning.

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time

I don't hope," he answered, eyes on her. "I never hope. I just live in gratitude for what comes.

We are fish swimming in a cooking pot

An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, An inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.

Goals help you keep in perspective what's really important so you don't spend all of your time doing what seems urgent.

Listen twice as much as you talk and others will hear twice as much of what you say.

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

It's always best to look ahead and not backwards. Possessions are not important. Think of those beautiful porcelain pieces I had. Before they came to me, they had all passed through the hands of many people, surviving wars and natural disasters. I got them only because someone else lost them. While I had them, I enjoyed them; now some other people will enjoy them. Life itself is transitory. Possessions are not important.

He laid a hand on my arm and said calmly, with resignation, "Don't get excited and angry. It's useless to get angry with them. They have the last word always. If they say something happened, it happened. It's useless to resist. I've learned this from my personal experience.

Der Punkt ist, dass Feldexkursionen häufig eher ein Versuch des Forschers sind, eigene, sehr persönliche Probleme zu lösen, als dass sie dem Bemühen entspringen andere Kulturen zu verstehen.

Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. -- Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)

I am not getting into the rarebit versus rabbit argument. Whatever you call it, it is still cheese on toast.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.

About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether or not we exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come and see you. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.