Quotes About Perspective

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.

I hope we can be happy where we are, be grateful for our blessings-now-here, accept the challenge that is ours and make the most of it, and don't be envious of others. God help us to be grateful.

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.

Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and thoughts, and, I hope, the delight.

It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.

I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

[It's] funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the daytime.

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.

There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.

Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now.

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it.

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.