Quotes About Perspective

Maud ficou radiante por ter ganhado um dólar, que valia cerca de um trilhão de marcos.

Dac? oamenii spun un lucru, asta nu înseamn? c? e È™i adev?rat.

O lupt? pierdut?, o jachet? rupt? ?i b?t?i cu rigla la palm?: ?i-ar fi dorit acum asemenea probleme.

But he had no wish to win an argument with his son. He just wanted the boy to know the truth.

Sylvie appeared startled by that thought. Perhaps she had not imagined that children might bring pain as well as joy.

She had always had this ability to make him revise his attitudes, he recalled. It was an uncomfortable process, but she was often right.

Fathers were supposed to be invulnerable - but that attitude was childish, he now saw. Irritatingly, he might have to change his outlook. He could no longer be merely indignant and resentful. He was not the only sufferer. Dad had hurt him, but he had hurt Dad as well, and they were both responsible. Feeling responsible was not as comfortable as feeling outraged.

What is wrong with this war is that we are on the wrong side. We are the bad guys. That is why kids dodge the draft; that is why the Vietnamese won't fight; that is why we kill women and children; that is why the generals lie to the politicians, and the politicians lie to the reporters, and the newspapers lie to the public. After that, his

La capacidad de escuchar a gente inteligente que no está de acuerdo contigo es un talento difícil de encontrar…

We can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys...

If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen... ...if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see...

you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

I was actually going out of the hospital with two whores on a fishing boat; I had to keep saying it over and over to myself to believe it.

Always stay in your own movie.

I could now (possibly) go back and restretch those shrunken hours, flake the images separate, arrange them in accurate chronological order, (possibly; with will-power, patience, and the proper chemicals) but being accurate is not necessarily being honest.... Nor is chronological reporting by any means always the most truthful (each camera has its own veracity) especially when, in all good faith, one cannot truthfully claim to remember what happened accurately....

The way I remember it the tribe got paid some huge amount. That's what they said to him. He said, What can you pay for the way a man lives? He said, What can you pay for the way a man is? They didn't understand.

there was nothing, not a thing! about the country that made a man feel Big And Important. If anything it made a man feel dwarfed, and about as important as one of the fish-Indians living down on the clamflats. Important? Why, there was something about the whole blessed country that made a soul feel whipped before he got started.

It's the truth. Even if it didn't happen.