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One is free to choose, but what follows is the result of one's choice. Life is like a game of chess... Life is like a game of chess, in which there are an infinite number of complex moves possible. The choice is open, but the move contains within itself all future moves. One is free to choose, but what follows is the result of one's choice. From the consequences of one's action there is never any escape.

-- Shelley Smith in The Ballad of the Running Man



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  Quotations on 'Perspective'
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein
One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value. Albert Einstein
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. Albert Einstein
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. Alfred North Whitehead
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr
I haven't failed; I've found 10,000 ways that don't work. Benjamin Franklin
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. Brigitte Bardot
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian. Dennis Wholey
Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks. Dottie Walters
Some Christians have cataracts on their 'inside' eyes and powerful bifocals on their 'outside' eyes. Dr. Stanley E. Jones
When a man's right leg is too long -- longer than the other -- then he is lame. When one good quality is long in proportion to others then we are spiritually lame. Dr. Stanley E. Jones
Positive anything is better than negative nothing. Elbert Hubbard
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. Frank Crane
Do not ask how intelligent I am but rather how I am intelligent. Gardner
You see things and you say 'Why?'. I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?' George Bernard Shaw
We remain such creeping Christians because we look at ourselves instead of Christ. George McDonald
The eyes believe themselves; the ear believe other people. German Proverb
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. Hellen Keller
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in that determines the success of a voyage. Henry Ward Beecher
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy

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