Quotes About Clarity

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.

Having to explain it means you probably shouldn't have said it.

You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was ninety percent sure." "I see," Clary said. There must have been something in her voice, because he turned to look at her. Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. He put his hands on his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?" "The other ten percent.

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)

It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.

I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them." "Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing.

There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.

It's fascinating. You know all these words, and they're all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don't make any sense.

There is no pretending",Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you,and I will love you until I die,and if there's a life after that,I'll love you then." She caught her breath.He had said it-the words there was no going back from.

A distinguished journalist advised me to be so clear in my thinking that I could hold the story of what happened in a single sentence. It is this: I came upon something evil and destroyed it.

From that moment on, I knew what it was to be a good student. A good student doesn't talk; she listens. I will say this about George: he was very clear about what was expected of us and told us when we did something wrong. Teenagers need that level of clarity sometimes for a lesson to sink in. There were so many others: don't take short cuts, work ethic is everything, and if nothing else, be gutsy.

What the big print on the front giveth, the little print on the back taketh away!" If you want to be a successful negotiator, force yourself to read everything carefully. Conversely, there's nothing wrong with hiding something that's important to you but likely to be unacceptable to the other side in an inconspicuous place. If it's spotted and raised by the other side, discuss it normally; never plead guilty to using trickery.

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you're up to.

It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.

That is what philosophers are good for: stating the obvious that no one else is emotionally willing to admit.

That is what philosophers are good for: stating the obvious that no one else is emotionally willing to admit. The trouble with trying to think clearly is that our emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.

Think more interestingly more clearly more often, because life is more interesting than you think.

If you really want to change Reality, the first thing to do is figure out what Reality really is.

There are no inherent mysteries, only intricate misunderstandings.

Familiarity obscures. It breeds instinct and not understanding.

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Any truth must be in a humanly conceptualized and understandable form if it is to be a truth for us. If it's not a truth for us, how can we make sense of its being a truth at all?