Quotes About Observation

He can't always watch us directly,...with his fullest attention every minute, but He's always at least watching from the corner of his eye.

This is A Moment, stay with it, I told myself

I believed that I now knew what a lobster felt as it languished in a tank beside the maître d' station in a restaurant, while hungry patrons, waiting to be seated, tapped the glass and remarked upon its size and succulence.

Furtive behavior is always noticed and, when noticed, inevitably raises an alarm. On the other hand, a man acting boldly and directly is viewed as honest and harmless, is not remarked upon, and is later forgotten altogether.

I was learning how people were with one another, how they acted and reacted and interacted, what they said and how they said it, what they wanted, what they hoped for—more than I could learn from books alone.

Even as I regarded those two men, I became aware of the flying beams of the spotlights, to the north-east, painting ephemeral infinity symbols across the pregnant clouds that increasingly commanded the sky, of the distant roller-coaster chain clacking through the ratchet angles of the guideway as cars full of riders climbed an incline toward the next long drop, of the dusty smell of the campground, and of the scent of rain pending.

peering in the starboard window of the cargo

She's not seen it a tenth this bright on any previous night.

taut. She looked out of the windows, left and right—and her tail began to swish.

His sense of smell alone brought him more information

the nature of the world when you dared to see it clearly: a place of mystery in which extraordinary coincidences were more common than they seemed.

That's a fox. His tail alone proves it.

Most likely, she's witnessing not an escape, but a penetration.

Now Michael J. watches her from high on the sycamore.

The fox rises, changes position, sits on his hindquarters, his glorious tail

Einstein watched with interest and did not seem even slightly woozy from his half-bottle of San Miguel. "Okay," Travis said, "I need

The woman in the hallway looks like Sarah, except she appears to be scared shitless

is not an active tormentor but a passive observer in the home, her child has a third option. He can choose to grant her mercy without pardon, and find compassion for her in recognition that her stunted emotional development denies her the fullest enjoyment of life.

She listens to Walsh describe a boat that he observed passing Oak Haven Island;

Don't use your mind to try and figure things out. What is it that watches your mind? Be there—now.

She wanted us to see that life could be good, if we looked around at the world instead of within ourselves.

It's said that there are men who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.

All I need to do is open my eyes.

We drove through the Old Dominion University campus, where a small permanent lake has formed in the back corner of a huge parking lot. "You can't pave under water," he noted dryly, "so this obviously wasn't under water when this parking lot was paved.