Quotes About Clarity

Boredom is mostly caused by not doing what you want to do which is caused by not knowing what to do or not knowing how to get out of a situation that you are in.

In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette

Mary sat, quiet and attentive and blank. It wasn't like talking to a dumb seventh-grader, it was like talking to a pancake.

Get far enough away and it looks kinda pretty, don't it?" she said. "You only get order from a distance. Close up is always messy." "Yeah," I said, "but your own life is always close up. You only see other people's lives at long range.

Since when do you and I talk about the world," she said. "The world is what it is." "Yeah, I know." "Not only do you know, you've helped me to know." "Good to be useful," I said. "What has always made me respect you, even in the bad times, was your ability to look out at the world and see what's there. Not what you'd like to see, or even what you need to see, but simply what's there.

Few places are more charming than a quiet cocktail lounge in the middle of the day with the ice tinkling in the glasses and the starched look of a bartender's white shirt and the clarity of the beer in the glass with the bubbles drifting up.

You need to be able to hear the truth, he thought. You can't hear the truth, you got nowhere to start.

Words can," Susan said. "And tone of voice. You're just so goddamned autonomous that you won't explain yourself to anybody.

One must have a mind of winter, I thought, to behold the nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. - from The Snow Man, by Wallace Stevens

All at once that was the most important thing—to get out of the dark.

Nós não somos tão lúcidos quanto fingimos ser.

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

Read the text right and emancipate the world. – Robert Browning

dark, difficult enough the human sphere, yet eyes grow sharp by use

For, looking up, aware I somehow grew, 'Spite of the dusk, the plain had given place All round to mountains - with such name to grace Mere ugly heights and heaps now stolen in view. How thus they had surprised me - solve it, you! How to get from them was no clearer case.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.

You don't have to explain something you didn't say.

The zen of housecleaning allows one to reach inner peace.

She looked at me with clear eyes that were free of doubt or equivocation. "Of course. I knew that we would.

I gave it to him from the beginning. I had told it so many times to so many cops I thought about making mimeographed copies and handing them out. When I told the part about Nobu Ishida, Jack Ellis said, "Holy shit.

If you've got fifty goals," the governor once lectured the Texas Education Agency, "you've got no goals.

The matter is very simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But . . . we pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. —SØREN KIERKEGAARD

Has confundido la necesidad con el amor?".