Quotes About Perspective

When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better."

On a clear day you can see Prince Edward Island , we would say. Not "forever", just Prince Edward Island.

Talking about history is not like living it, I guess. Some people have more choice than others.

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

All of you are above me, and I am above all of you.

My nose is a bridge between East and West. My little eye is a wink from God.

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.

Cultural relativism destroys both one's own and the good.

It may well be that a society's greatest madness seems normal to itself.

In order to know such an amorphous being as man, Rousseau himself and his particular history are, in his view, more important than is Socrates quest for man in general or man in himself.

Our minds must make an enormous effort to find the natural sweetness of life in its fullness. The way back is at least as long as the one that brought us here. For Hobbes and Locke nature is near and unattractive, and mans movement into society was easy and unambiguously good. For Rousseau nature is distant and attractive, and the movement was hard and divided man.

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Fifteen, that's the age when the only world event that counts is whatever mood you're in that day.

when he wanted her opinion, he would give it to her.

cuántos tormentos se ahorra el que sabe contentarse con lo que tiene, que ve sin envidia lo que no tiene, que no pretende parecer más de lo que es! Siempre es rico, porque si mira hacia abajo en vez de mirar hacia arriba, siempre verá gentes que aun tienen menos; vive tranquilo, porque no se crea necesidades quiméricas, y la calma en medio de los huracanes de la vida ¿no es acaso una felicidad?

Life is not mathematics, and few things have only one correct answer

why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

I have no idea what my great-grandparents looked or sounded like, or the great-greats before them, back to caveman days. It's weird to think they were like me once, goofing with friends, mad at their parents, brave, scared, everything. But now they're gone too, and nobody knows or cares. So why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

The points are not the point; the point is poetry.

I can tell a lot about people just by watching them go about their day. And from where I sits in the crow's nest, a rich man and a poor man looks equally small.

I can tell a lot about people just by watching them going about their day. And from where I sits in the crow's nest, a rich man and a poor man looks equally small.

Because when you feel physically and mentally low, molehills become mountains, slight set-backs seem like disasters, and the smallest problem tends to be the final straw to break the camel's back.

Just one cigarette' is a myth you must get out of your mind.