Quotes About Observation

The fragment of coral, a tiny crinkle of pink like a sugar rosebud from a cake, rolled across the mat. How small, thought Winston, how small it always was!

In Paris, if you had no money and could not find a public bench, you would sit on the pavement. Heaven knows what sitting on the pavement would lead to in London-prison probably.

Raras vezes falava, e em geral quando o fazia era para emitir uma observação cínica — para dizer, por exemplo, que Deus lhe dera uma cauda para espantar as moscas, e no entanto seria mais do seu agrado não ter nem a cauda nem as moscas.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which

After all, that is what the merely casual onlooker always sees — the outward appearance, the non-functional, the surfaces of things. No one who is really involved in the landscape ever sees the landscape.

It is difficult to be certain about anything except what you have seen with your own eyes, and consciously or unconsciously everyone writes as a partisan.

No había duda de la transformación ocurrida en las caras de los cerdos. Los animales asombrados, pasaron su mirada del cerdo al hombre, y del hombre al cerdo; y, nuevamente, del cerdo al hombre; pero ya era imposible distinguir quién era uno y quién era otro.

Beware of my partisanship, my mistakes of fact and the distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of events.

On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.

Her taÅŸ blokunun içinde bir heykel olmas?na benzer ÅŸekilde, her ÅŸiÅŸman?n da içinde zay?f birinin olduÄŸuna hiç dikkat ettiniz mi?

I should like to understand what really goes on in the souls of plongeurs and tramps and Embankment sleepers. At present I do not feel that I have seen more than the fringe of poverty.

D??ar?daki hayvanlar, bir domuzdan bir insana, bir insandan bir domuza, gene bir domuzdan tekrar bir insana bakt?lar. Fakat hangisinin domuz, hangisinin insan oldu?unu bilmek imkan? kalmam??t?.

Sin duda,podrían saber hasta el más pequeño detalle todo lo que uno hubiera hecho, dicho o pensado;pero el fondo del corazón, cuyo contenido era un misterio incluso para su dueño, se mantendría siempre inexpugnable.

No cabía duda alguna de la transformación en las caras de los cerdos. Los animales, atravesados por el asombro, pasearon su mirada del cerdo al hombre, y nuevamente del hombre al cerdo, una y otra vez, pero les fue imposible hallar diferencia alguna entre uno y otro.

Ver lo que tenemos delante de nuestras narices requiere un esfuerzo constante

Los animales asombrados, pasaron su mirada del cerdo al hombre, y del hombre al cerdo; y, nuevamente, del cerdo al hombre; pero ya era imposible distinguir quién era uno y quién era otro

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

They were like the ant, which can see small objects but not large ones.

quantum physics, in which the simple act of observation seemed to affect the physical world, and in which changes performed on one physical system could have an immediate effect on another quite unlinked system (the theory of nonlocality)

This shrewd deceit taught me my first lesson in looking out for myself.

If you have not acquired more than a bare existence in the years since we were youths, it is because you either have failed to learn the laws that govern the building of wealth, or else you do not observe them.

In the town where I live, I have frequently observed a phenomenon I have come to think of as Samish-Sex Marriage.

I could see that, over the years, my babies would slowly transform into selfish-dick babies, then selfish-dick toddlers, kids, teenagers, and adults, with me all that time skulking around like some unclean suspect uncle.