Quotes About Perspective

Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.

You mustn't get me used to too many luxuries. One doesn't miss what one has never had; but it's awfully hard going without things after one has commenced thinking they are his.

Men's truths rather too neatly fit their convenience, have you ever noticed that?

We Americans unjustly hold the French to a New World standard, the authors state. But they're no more New World than the Japanese.

présent, la version des événements sans jamais pouvoir affirmer que celle-ci est définitive.

Ce n'est pas une autobiographie qu'on devrait écrire mais dix, mais cent, car, si nous n'avons qu'une vie, nous disposons d'innombrables manières de (nous) la raconter.

L'expérience n'est que le masque dont on affuble son optimisme quand on veut le faire partager à plus jeune que soi.

No es posible mostrar a una mujer un hombre apuesto que llora sin que se diga 'Desde luego, yo le habría amado mejor

Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...

Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who would say of himself 'I am an overcoat' just because he happened to be wearing one?

In un certo paese vivevano un uomo molto ricco e un uomo molto povero. Ognuno aveva un figlio. L'uomo molto ricco salì con il figlio sulla cima di una collina, gli indicò con un gesto il paesaggio circostante e gli disse: Guarda. Un giorno tutto questo sarà tuo. L'uomo molto povero salì con il figlio sulla cima della stessa collina, gli indicò il paesaggio circostante e gli disse semplicemente: Guarda.

In un certo paese vivevano un uomo molto ricco e un uomo molto povero. Ognuno aveva un figlio. L'uomo molto ricco salì con il figlio sulla cima di una collina, gli indicò con un gesto il paesaggio circostante e gli disse: L'uomo molto povero salì con il figlio sulla cima della stessa collina, gli indicò il paesaggio circostante e gli disse semplicemente:

Todo frequentador de cinema é, a seu modo, um pouco São Tomé: acreditando apenas no que vê e vendo o que acredita ver.

You can handle the wheelchair," said the occupational therapist, with a smile intended to make the remark sound like good news, whereas to my ears it had the ring of a life sentence.

Mysterious paradox: time, motionless here, gallops out there. In my contracted world, the hours drag on but the months flash by.

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We are both locked-in cases, each in his own way: myself in my carcass, my father in his fourth-floor apartment.

All the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen.

I think we need to have a little talk, woman to skank.

I only meant because sometimes the experience of reading can be corrupted by too many opinions.

Less than two weeks ago, dirt on the floor in her hallway was a thing that could annoy her. It's unimaginable. The reality of what happened is so much worse than the very worst of her imaginary fears had ever been. But it could be worse still.