Quotes About Clarity

never overlook the power of simplicity

Jack narrowed his eyes. "Why can't you be just a hundred percent good or a hundred percent bad? Why do you have to keep me all confused all the time?

It's very simple -- I got smacked up the side of the head and all your bullshit fell out and some sense seeped in.

wish I had an answer for her. Something simple like Because, or poignant, such as Every child deserves to be found, or defiant, like Why not? But the truth is, she's probably heard it all by now. A whole torrent of words and reasons. Instead of being given the one thing she wants most: answers.

That's the beauty of retrospect. One sees so much more clearly.

You can never see anything clearly when you're running.

If you're worried I'll bite, I promise to tell you first.

Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully until the very minute that she'd written about it, as if each story was one she told herself and her readers, at the same time.

She kept an eye on the horizon, or where she thought it was, and understood that not everything that existed could be seen. Not every border was clear.

Harry Truman never said 'Give 'em hell.' He said, 'I just told him the truth and they thought it was hell.

If I stopped talking after I made my point, I'd never say anything.

did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. —HARRY S TRUMAN

A complaint had to be true and specific

But I understand it better than I can speak it.

If I stopped talking after I made my point, I'd never say anything.

Lisa Scottoline

When you're held underwater, you think only of air.

Suffering has brought clarity into my life. Maybe the things that have happened to me are punishment for what I did in a previous life, maybe they were fate or destiny, and maybe they're all just part of a natural cycle - like the short but spectacular lives of cherry blossoms in spring or leaves falling away in autumn.

They say nothing to me in a very loud way.

I had always thought it was her way of blinding herself to the messiness of the way we lived. Now I realised it was easier for her mind to go out through the air far above the clouds than to acknowledge the ugliness right before her eyes.

I had always thought it was her way of blinding herself to the messiness of the way we lived. Now I realised it was easier for her mind to go out through the air far above the clouds then to acknowledge the ugliness right before her eyes.

It took me me many years to realize that my perceptions at this time was completely wrong.

It sounded to him like the noise of too many mouths that talk and too few minds that think.

It was human nature to see only what you want to see, and nothing would change that, no matter what tools people had at their disposal. The truth is only what you think it is.