Quotes About Observation

Better to keep the unhappy, mad, bad, unpleasant words separate, where you can watch them and make sure they don't surprise you when you're not expecting them.

We can't always see what others don't want us too. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it.

She wondered what he looked like with his hat off and wondered again if he knew he was funny.

At the bottom of the hill they came out of the trees to a busy street and Antwan said, We cross here. Ain't no lights here, Antwan said. Just look out for the ones trying to hit you. There's a nice-looking blonde-haired female human lives around here - any time she sees me she tries to run me down.

She said, Coming across the yard you had your hat off, but as you reached the door you put it on. I guess I did, didn't I? You were being...I want to say official, and your hat's like a badge of office. You like to set it forward a little, close over your eyes. I've had that hat eight years, Raylan said. I never thought I wore it any special way, I just put it on my head.

She was beginning to look older to him. The view was the same. It didn't change.

A good investigator doesn't know what he's looking for till he sees it.

He's male. I've noticed that sometimes the brains simply get left out of the package.

I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it. He sounds like a dock. Lord Sundron put in. Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning, Linnet said a dock might be just the thing for me.

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

Mais il avait oublié l'inventaire, il ne voyait pas son empire, ces magasins crevant de richesses. Tout avait disparu, les victoires bruyantes d'hier, la fortune colossale de demain. D'un regard désespéré, il suivait Denise, et quand elle eut passé la porte, il n'y eut plus rien, la maison devint noire.

Vous ne le voyez pas, lorsqu'il baisse lentement les paupières, comme pour éteindre ses yeux.

to uncover the true workings of human society from beneath the aesthetic surface under observation. (xiii)

it was in that uncertain state of mind that he began to sketch her face (12)

Pero como aquí —observó Nucha, formulando sencillamente una observación histórico-filosófica de bastante alcance— no ve uno sino las atrocidades de los señores de otro tiempo... parece que son las únicas que le dan en qué pensar... ¿Por qué serán tan malos cristianos los hombres? —añadió entreabriendo los labios con cándido asombro.

She'd often observed that people generally lived up to whatever expectations they had of themselves. Building someone's self-confidence did a lot more good in getting the best results out of people than making them feel as if they couldn't do anything right.

Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?

Nunca le declaré abiertamente mi amor, pero si las miradas hablan, el más tonto habría podido advertir que me tenía trastornado el juicio.

I could see every pebble on the path, and every blade of grass, by that splendid moon.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Heathcliff measured the height and breadth of the speaker with an eye full of derision.

Joseph, hazte cargo del caballo del señor Lockwood; y sube vino. «Supongo que la plantilla de empleados domésticos se reduce a uno —pensé al oír aquella orden múltiple—. No es de extrañar que la hierba crezca entre los adoquines y que el ganado sea el único que poda los setos.»