Quotes About Perspective

Then we have the Gospel of John, the odd man out. John's story of Jesus is so out of step with the others that it is sometimes hard to see how he could be talking about the same person.

Think of it as an eight-dimensional onion.' Justine straightened her back and gave her father an exasperated look. 'Thanks, Dad. That's helpful. I always think in those terms, it really helps a lot.

Interpretation though the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.

rationalize that as something else

Interpretation through the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.

Thoale alone knows why suicides are so fond of jumping off cliffs and bridges; they wouldn't if they knew what that trip's like.

Mother Mary, this is not what was meant to be." "Nothing ever is, Doc. I learned that long ago." "Ha! You're too young." "Depends how you fill the years, doesn't it?

Acceptance of truth is fundamental to our ethos. To determine truth we must first listen to all opinion.

and you're not a raving hothead about it like all the other hate-the-rich dissenter rabble.

They might be different species, but it was easy enough to see your own kind in a mirror, however great the distortion.

And who decides what true is?

The oldest human story of all: I never knew what I had until I lost it.

It was a sixty-five, thirty-five split. That percentage isn't something I'd kill for.

Humans are so fascinating, aren't we? If ten of us are each given our own piano, we'll play eleven different tunes.

Despite Alexandre's considerable height, Dellian could never

How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.

That was the trouble with history, Oscar thought: Once the distance had grown long enough, any event could be seen favorably. The true horror faded with time, and ignorance replaced it.

WHEN I WAS 25 I THOUGHT MY DAD WAS A FOOL NOW THAT IM 30 ITS AMAZING HOW SMART HE HAS GOTTON OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS.MY SECOND FAVORITE IS A MAN PREACHING TO ANOTHER ABOUT HOW HE BELIEVES THAT FAMILY COMES FIRST AND HOW HIS FRIEND SHOULD REMEMBER WHAT HIS PARENTS DID FOR HIM BEFORE HE DISRESPECTS THEM. WELL LETS JUST SAY I UNDERSTAND.

Every man will tell you little boys should not play with dolls but ask any mother and they will tell you, every little boy has gone to sleep cuddled into one at one time in there life.

Did I dream this belief or did I believe this dream?

a totally dried noose for one is to another an integrated text adept at the cards that ruin whimsy...

if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present

She compares up, to the First World, where privileges are treated as rights. I compare down, to the apocalyptic Africa that presses in around us, where rights are only for the privileged. After covering wars in Mozambique, Angola, Uganda, Somalia, and Sudan, Zimbabwe feels to me like Switzerland.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.