Quotes About Imperceptible

And at last, in its curved and imperceptible fall, the sun sank low, and from glowing white changed to a dull red without rays and without heat, as if about to go out suddenly, stricken to death by the touch of that gloom brooding over a crowd of men.

In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.

tactile than olfactory—but I could discern nothing else about it.

Measured over too short a span, change becomes imperceptible; people mistake today's peculiarities for eternal verities.

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see

Elle se disait qu'il était peut-être là, séparé d'elle par un rien de temps, par un millième de seconde, plus infranchissable qu'un mur de forteresse.

I have found that because of our Father's desire for us to grow, He may give us gentle, almost imperceptible promptings that, if we are willing to accept without complaint, He will enlarge to become a very clear indication of His will.

Certain attacks brought him so close to death that I wonder how he escaped it, what imperceptible shock—coming from whom?—pushed him back from the brink.

even if the previous millisecond is closer to us than the birth of the universe, it is equally out of reach.

being nothing, being unimagined, being unreal.

McGahern's voice came in: 'I am sure it is from those days that I take the belief that the best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

Drivers hit their horns in anticipation of potential fractional delays.

Because the thing is, as Milo and my friends taught me, ghosts do exist. They don't have to be the creepy monsters that cause nightmares or do harm. They can take the form of memories, of feelings, or of a hard-to-define presence. Or of something else that's impossible to explain, but that's totally okay—just because something can't be explained doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Porque las novelas nacen así, a partir de algo ínfimo. Surgen de un pequeño grumo imaginario que yo denomino el huevecillo. Este corpúsculo primero puede ser una emoción, o un rostro entrevisto en una calle.

I'm not imperceptible to masculine charm, but, well, you know, I can flirt.

O olho do homem serve de fotografia ao invisível, como o ouvido serve de eco ao silêncio.

Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so that he insinuates his sentiments and taste into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence.

Bernays's tone is managerial, not millenarian, nor does he promise that his methodology will turn this world into a modern paradise. His vision seems quite modest. The world informed by "public relations" will be but "a smoothly functioning society," where all of us are guided imperceptibly throughout our lives by a benign elite of rational manipulators.

It seemed that everyone was shouting too loudly and moving too quickly. This sensation was accompanied by nausea, and she had had the impression that something absolutely material, which had been present around her and around everyone and everything forever, but imperceptible, was breaking down the outlines of persons and things and revealing itself.

Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.

The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.

In fact, our bodies are never the same--each minute, they undergo changes, even if imperceptible. Eisenstein (2001, 40-41) points out that we have many bodies, which influence our accounts of reality: 'Writing from the body, my body, my different bodies, I have different stories to tell. They are all all of a piece although they are also fragmentary as through each body experience has its own narration (13).