Quotes About Perspective

She wouldn't have seen any of the dinginess, because no one ever does until they're on the outside of a place, looking in.

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up 'cause they're looking for ideas.

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

The lord giveth and most women piss it away. Perhaps this is why they lack the equipment to aim.

There comes a time in every relationship when as far as a man is concerned everything that needs to be said has been said. Usually we women are too busy talking to ourselves to notice but, when we do figure it out, boy are we mad.

Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

It seemed to him she understood but was not willing to concede they might be on the same side against anyone or anything.

Who cares for your fashions and your wars and your causes? I will shortly be gone and I have seen many fashions come and go and many causes so passionately defended only to be forgotten. But now it was different and he was drawn back into the stream of being because there was once again a life in his hands. Things mattered. The

I told you but you didn't hear me. You hear what you want.

All he had was the story of his life, which was as good as any other man's, and in the end it is all we have.

Britt said, "I closed the deal on Lottie Durgan and we are talking about her grandmother, Elizabeth Fitzgerald. I can get her cheap." "Jesus," said the major. Here was a black man bargaining for the price of a white woman. The world had turned upside down.

In her daily company he found himself also ceasing to value these things that seemed so important to the white world.

We spend our lives in worlds remote from one another. We imagine we all live together on this round earth but we do not." Samuel

Evie always said it didn't matter what happened to you, only what you thought about it, and then what you did about it.

What is the big deal about a couple of legs anyway?" Fyn looked at the medic. If she didn't know, he couldn't explain it.

La familia que existe en la cabeza de las personas es más importante que la que se registra en su libreta de tomador del censo...La experiencia de la inmigración proporciona una visión especial sobre cómo las personas aprenden a prescindir de aquello a que estaban acostumbradas para poder adoptar lo nuevo.

There's no way I could make the case that Animal House is a better picture than Heaven Can Wait , yet on some sort of emotional-aesthetic level I prefer it.

Pryor's comedy isn't based on suspiciousness about whites, or on anger, either; he's gone way past that. Whites are unbelievable to him.

When I was in Colditz, that impenetrable fortress, whittling away my life, I wanted to know this." "Looks like you're still there, Shura." "No," he said. "I'm in New York, a fly on the wall, trying to see you without me.

the days of the young, when they gulped the air and lived to see the better world, the grown-up world, when they could not wait for the days to end so that they could get on with the rest of their lives.

Why do you enjoy torturing yourself? Do you feel life has been too good to you?" Tatiana stared at him. "Life has," she said slowly, "been too good to me.

Oh, Tully, you really don't understand, do you? It's not a matter of going after him, don't you see?" Jennifer began to cry again. "Don't you see that if he wanted me, he would've seen by now what's so plain to me and to everyone else? He would've seen it. But he doesn't see it because he doesn't feel the same way.

War was like weather – always something to talk about.