Perspective Quotes

We were sleeping on the same bed with our backs to each other trying to imagine a new life.

...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...

The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.

Our side has agents. Their side has spies.

Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.

...and that there were many things grown-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...

With improved historical records, and easier access to them, we actually have better reasons for hating one another, for anger and violence toward one another.

Mujizat gampang terlihat dari sudut pandang takhayul.Miracles are easily seen from superstitious perspective.

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

Sometimes I lose perspective, but it helps to stop and look around. I may not have it all, but I have more than enough. And enough, it seems, is more than most have...

Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn't change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed.

After 25 the only thing you’ll be precocious at is death.

Where you are today is where you're from tomorrow.

The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.

People have the power to change their perspective. They just get caught up in an endless cycle of foolish things that don’t matter.

No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try.

Sometimes she wondered if the shape of his eyes affected how he saw things. That was probably the most racist question of all time.

I am most right because I realize I am most wrong

Personally, I’m choosing to dwell upon the glory of the kingdom of which I am a part, even though I’m still a witness and sometimes a victim of the junk in ‘this’ world.

The nature of God's plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it is glorious from above, if you allow yourself the perspective.

You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one.

You don't see the world as it is, you see it, as you are.

I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.

Fear is and has always been dead. It's how we picture it that makes fear come to life.

Dreams are fragile. Reality is a clumsy postman.

countries who have a longer past are better able see further forward into the future and think about extending the time period that they've already been around into the distant future.

To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing.

When someone says you can't, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can't.

Actually, it's nature itself that creates the most beautiful pictures, I'm only choosing the perspective.

Sometimes you don't need to change what you're looking at only get a better view.

Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly.

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.

Altering your perspective can provide you the luxury of seeing things for what they are, not what you wish them to be.

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

The trouble with you people is that you've been here for thirty million years and your perspectives are all wrong. You miss so much of the transitory beauty of life.

There is wonder in everything, the only thing you need to change to see it is your perspective.

Perspective: it is the creativity we possess, the beliefs we follow and the lessons we learn.

There is wisdom in climbing mountains... For they teach us how truly small we are.

Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered.

A big thing will remain a big thing until a bigger thing will occur.

Leave it to a vampire to think a healthy guy in his late thirties or early forties was on his deathbed.

It's HE-RO, " the boy argued."No, " the girl insisted, "it's HER-O.

You have to thank God for the seemingly good and the seemingly bad because really, you don't know the difference [until we get to heaven].

Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is.

...you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!...

...I look out at the world through your transparent face...