A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. —John le Carre More about this quote Tags: danger perspective desk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from John le Carre Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers. —John le Carre More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. —John le Carre More about this quote Tags: solitude perspective world home travel aloneness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers. —John le Carre More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. —John le Carre More about this quote Tags: solitude perspective world home travel aloneness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “perspective” This increasingly intelligent, fast-moving civilization needs to be applying some of its intelligence to things that change slowly. . . . If we are constantly tending to the immediate, day-to-day problems, we'll lose that sense of the long term, and then we could be really sorry. —Stewart Brand More about this quote Tags: intelligence time perception perspective change civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Marriage is a perilous and fearful effort, it seems to me. . . . It creates pain that it is the only cure for. It is the only comfort for its hardships. . . . Though we had our troubles, we had them in a true perspective. The universe, as we could see any night, is unimaginably large, and mostly empty, and mostly dark. We knew we needed to be together more than we needed to be apart. —Wendell Berry More about this quote Tags: fear perspective pain marriage comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Our parents got divorced when we were kids, and it was kind of cool. We got to go to divorce court with them. It was like a game show. My mom won the house and car. We were all excited. My dad got some luggage. —Tom Arnold More about this quote Tags: perspective childhood divorce excitement separation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective. —James Patterson in Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas More about this quote Tags: life perspective miracles Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. —Marilyn French More about this quote Tags: perspective men mountains pebble Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This increasingly intelligent, fast-moving civilization needs to be applying some of its intelligence to things that change slowly. . . . If we are constantly tending to the immediate, day-to-day problems, we'll lose that sense of the long term, and then we could be really sorry. —Stewart Brand More about this quote Tags: intelligence time perception perspective change civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Marriage is a perilous and fearful effort, it seems to me. . . . It creates pain that it is the only cure for. It is the only comfort for its hardships. . . . Though we had our troubles, we had them in a true perspective. The universe, as we could see any night, is unimaginably large, and mostly empty, and mostly dark. We knew we needed to be together more than we needed to be apart. —Wendell Berry More about this quote Tags: fear perspective pain marriage comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our parents got divorced when we were kids, and it was kind of cool. We got to go to divorce court with them. It was like a game show. My mom won the house and car. We were all excited. My dad got some luggage. —Tom Arnold More about this quote Tags: perspective childhood divorce excitement separation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective. —James Patterson in Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas More about this quote Tags: life perspective miracles Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. —Marilyn French More about this quote Tags: perspective men mountains pebble Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email