180 quotes found
“One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.”
“A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.”
“Isn't it lucky?”
“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance and delusion, through the alluvium which cover...”
“If you can look at one of these waves and you don't believe that there's something greater than we are, then you've got some serious analyzing to do and you should go sit under a tree for a very lo...”
“The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.”
“From the sky, everything looked fake. The buildings were doll houses. The cars were Matchbox racers. People scuttled about, but they werent really people anymore. Their little lives meant absolutel...”
“No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.”
“He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.”
“It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves”
“Were conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one. ”
“Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.”
“People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that a...”
“Nothing new about death, nothing new about deaths caused militarily. We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that night of March 9-10 than went up in vapor at Hiroshima an...”
“But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read.”
“I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything.”
“The man who'll lay the last stone here isn't even born yet.”
“We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt but unfathomed presence.”
“However, do you know what? I am convinced that fellows like me who live in dark cellars must be kept under restraint. They may be able to live in their dark cellars for forty years and never open t...”
“The Western church needs to regain its confidence in the role of outsiders, relocators who come in humility and grace to learn first and then to offer a different perspective.”
