Quotes About Perspective

the facts of history never come to us pure, since they do not and cannot exist in a pure form: they are always refracted through the mind of the recorder. It follows that when we take up a work of history, our first concern should not be with the facts which it contains but with the historian who wrote it.

Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

We expected to find aliens who were different from us, really different. We didn't expect to find aliens who are very similar with some striking differences. It has us off balance'.

In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.

When we take life for granted, we're assholes. Every day we wake up and the world's still turning- that's a great day.

Whoever said life has anything to do with what we want or don't want? Life's a gift, Cassie. Sometimes we have to give something back.

It mattered only that those kind of chains were gone and that he had crawled out into the clearing and was able to stand up on his hind legs and look around and appreciate the difference between then and now, even on the awful Richmond days when the now came dressed as the then.

Oh Lord, we thank Thee for this thy gift of lobster Newburg. And grant us also, if it be Thy will, control of the Hudson Ohio Railroad.' 'But we ain't wanting control of the Hudson Ohio, Sean softly objected. 'True,' said Gabriel Love, 'but the Almighty doesn't need to know that yet.

The fact that a proposition is absurd has never hindered those who wish to believe it.

As we grow older, we become more aware of the larger flow of life

Que tengamos diferentes puntos de vista no implica que tengamos que ser enemigos, ¿sabes? Sea como sea, las cosas no son tan simples.

We have to deal with the world as it is, not as it should be," he would gently point out.

propio del prejuicio es que aquel que lo tiene no es consciente de ello en absoluto.

There could be no real dialogue between those who still thought that time was on their side and those who realized that they were dangling from its jaws, like Saturn's children, already half-devoured.

People think they are individuals because they use the word ''I'' so often.

Is there ever anything to get unduly worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there are so many things to worry about duly?

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too small if it's cherished

Other people knew what they were meant to say, knew what they were meant to mean, and other people still - otherer people - knew what the other people meant when they said it.

Resentment used to be something folks wanted to get rid of, now they water it and put it on a windowsill, like a favourite pot plant.

Mind you, what is there to do with money except spend it when you've got it or be bitter about it when haven't?

Joy is not the opposite of suffering. If it were, a person practiced in joy could crowd out pain because one couldn't exist with the other. Instead, joy can actually be a companion to suffering.

The fear of man is the sinful exaggeration of a normal experience.

No one cares about their reputation or their bank account when they find themselves in the shadow of death.

Beneath our questions about God's generosity and his care for our needs is something darker. What we really care about is our wants.