Quotes About Perspective

Learning to understand those you hate and fear is harder. I

If you don't say it's wrong, then you're telling them you agree.

Maybe money couldn't buy happiness, but it could get you a table that looked like the back end of a deep-sea fishing vessel.

A veces se necesita que te den un buen golpe en la cabeza para darte cuenta de que lo que siempre has deseado no era lo que más te convenía.

Tengo que hacer la pregunta adecuada?-pregunté. Él negó con la cabeza. -No existe ninguna pregunta. Lo único que cuenta es lo que ves con tus propios ojos.

It never ceases to amaze me how someone can possess the world or nothing at all, and still have their happiness hinge on the small moments between them and the ones they love.

Quen said. "Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies.

A year of hell is worth three minutes in heaven. Or so they say.

It must be exhausting to be in your head, Sam once told me. I think what he must have meant was it was exhausting for him to hear about it. I exhausted him. -Cackle by Kim Harrison

Men," she said, rolling her eyes as she sat before her screen again. "Don't they realize that if we wanted to rule the world, we could?

It must be exhausting to be in your head, Sam told me once. I think what he must have meant was it was exhausting for him to hear about it. I exhausted him. -Cackle by Kim Harrison

The real locals were like fish in water, unaware and unimpressed.

Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.

Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation.

No one cares about books, that's why you can write anything you want in them.

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people's heads.

A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe. —Le

The past is always gone," Wahram said. "Whether the place is still there or not.

They played chess and Frank won. John laughed. How stupid, he said. What do you mean? Games don't mean anything. Are you sure? Sometimes life seems like a kind of game to me. John shook his head. In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing. You could put your bishop out there to mate the other guy's king, and he could lean down and whisper in your bishop's ear, and suddenly it's playing for him, and moving like a rook. And you're fucked.

You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated. "Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!

You've located intrinsic worth in the wrong place," she said to all of them, over the common band. "It's like a rainbow. Without an observer at a twenty-three-degree angle to the light reflecting off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty-three-degree angle to the universe.

There is a real situation, that can't be denied, but it is too big for any individual to know in full, and so we must create our understanding by way of an act of the imagination.

The rich, being people too, doing all they could to cope with the night sweats and zombie terrors of making fourteen hundred times as much money as the people working for them, made

ease of representation. It's always more than what you see, bigger than what you know. That said, people in this era did do it.