Quotes About Observation

His life fell like rain before his eyes, a quiet spectacle

Vi?š pien?ca tuv?k. K?du br?di v?roja putnu m?ju, uzman?gi nop?tot visas va?? atraut?s durvis. - Tie atgriez?sies. Vienm?r ir ?oti gr?ti pretoties k?rdin?jumam atgriezties, vai ne?

Zijn leven regende voor zijn ogen omlaag, een rustig schouwspel

Hij was overigens een van die mensen die hun eigen leven graag bijwonen, en elke ambitie om het te leven oneigenlijk achten. Het zij opgemerkt dat dat soort mensen naar hun lot kijkt op de manier waarop de meesten gewoonlijk naar een regenachtige dag kijken.

Sapeva ascoltare. E sapeva leggere. Non i libri, quelli son buoni tutti, sapeva leggere la gente. I segni che la gente si porta addosso: posti, rumori, odori, la loro terra, la loro storia... Tutta scritta, addosso.

Besides, it is no reason because you have not seen an execution at Paris, that you should not see one anywhere else; when you travel, it is to see everything. Think what a figure you will make when you are asked, How do they execute at Rome? and you reply, I do not know!

Look, Fernand, your eyes are better than mine. I believe I see double. You know wine is a deceiver; but I should say it was two lovers walking side by side, and hand in hand. Heaven forgive me, they do not know that we can see them, and they are actually embracing!

if you observe the social structure of the people, you only see springs of the machine, but not also the noble hand which moves it.

Women are the ones who knows what's going on,' she said quietly . 'They are the ones with eyes. Have you not heard of Agatha Christie?

Look at those clouds, said Jamie, gazing up at the sky. Look at them. Yes, said Isabel. They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them. Look at the shape of the clouds, she said. What do you see in those beautiful clouds, Jamie? I see you, he said.

The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour. They looked away

Mma Ramotswe decided to go back into her office. There was a curious thing about male conversation that she had noticed - men often ended up poking fun at one another. Women did this only rarely, but men seemed to love insulting one another. It was very strange.

You do not have to read a book to understand how the world works. You just have to keep your eyes open.

She watched him take the trumpet from its case and fit the mouthpiece. She watched as he raised it to his lips and then, so suddenly, from that tiny cup of metal against his flesh, the sound would burst out like a glorious, brilliant knife dividing the air. And the little room would reverberate and the flies, jolted out of their torpor, would buzz round and round as if riding the swirling notes.

There are so many things we take in subconsciously and are unaware we ever saw. There is plenty of lumber like that in our minds.

Lions walk on four legs, observed Mma Makutsi. Was this man walking on four legs? That can be a big giveaway, Mma.

People with something to hide wore sunglasses indoors. They were the ones you had to watch very carefully.

Yes. Look at the way in which a little boy plays. He prods. He investigates things all around him. He moves them. He tries to push them over. Then look at girls. They touch things gently. They watch them. They don't try to push them about. They…" She searched for the right word. "They cherish them." The

So plans were useful only in revealing what people wished for. If you wanted to know what they would actually do, then the only way of finding out was by watching them and seeing what they did. Then you would know what they might do in the future—because most people did what they had always done. That

people who believed not that the end was coming—as some people did—but that it had actually come, and we had simply failed to notice

But then men do not see things the same way we do, she thought. They have different eyes.

A woman sees more than a man sees. That is well-known.

No buts, Bertie. If you don't keep your promise then you'll get into serious trouble. Big time. You could go to prison, and then what? And there's God too. God watches these things and if he sees you breaking promises he can really get you. He does it all the time.

But look at it now: a detective agency, right here in Gaborone, with me, the fat lady detective, sitting outside and thinking these thoughts about how what is one thing today becomes quite another thing tomorrow.