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Quotes About Perspective

[The materialist] thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.
~ G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
What life is to humor, humor is to life.
~ Krishna Sagar
The difference between your crazy and my crazy is that you don't think you're crazy.
~ Steve Maraboli
...Be friend with Thief ... he will make you understand what is wrong doing ...
~ Bhavya Palia
Ish #21 "Stop saying the only meat you eat is chicken. It's still meat!
~ Regina Griffin
Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.
~ Jojo Moyes, After You
Life is sweet absurdity, Sir Wizard. Laugh your way through it.
~ Lita Burke, Old Bony Blue Eyes
I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.
~ Peter Jackson
I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.
~ Jens Lekman
Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.
~ Jens Lekman
I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.
~ Susanne Bier
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Christianity has confused catching mice with the real work of the Kingdom, which is more like hunting lions.
~ Leslie Ludy
You know what the ideal dove gun for any given day is? Your other-the one you left at home.
~ Gene Hill
But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.
~ Russell Banks
Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions.
~ Richard Bandler
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
~ Susan Sarandon
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
~ Irving Howe
Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.
~ Ken Wilber
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
~ John Lennon
Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it
~ Nella Larsen