Quotes About Observation

Por qué seré tan callado? Cuanto más hablan los que me rodean, menos ganas tengo de decir algo.

If you were damned certain you weren't looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn't see it.

English to Italian translation Il fascismo, più che ritiene e osserva il futuro e lo sviluppo dell'umanità, a prescindere da considerazioni politiche del momento, non crede né alla possibilità né all'utilità della pace perpetua. which means Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

Vreunul ar fi considerat-o femeie privit? prin sticl? de micÅŸorare, iar altul feti?? cu privire de adolescent?. Necunoscând-o, te întrebai dac? e un progres uimitor sau o întârziere lamentabil?.

Parece buen muchacho ese Pablo.

Oh, señora condesa, parece que ha adivinado usted mi pensamiento! Como usted, yo he observado la corrupción de las costumbres, hija de la desenvoltura francesa; como usted, he observado el descuido de las madres, la ceguera de los padres, la malicia de las tías, la complicidad de las primas y la debilidad de las abuelas; y he dicho: «orden, rigor, cautela, reclusión, tiranía, o si no dentro de poco la sociedad se precipitará en los abismos del pecado».

Y aunque yo era entonces un chiquillo, recuerdo que pensé lo siguiente: «Un hombre tonto no es capaz de hacer en ningún momento de su vida los disparates que hacen a veces las naciones, dirigidas por centenares de hombres de talento»

Pero tú y tus amigas rara vez os acercáis a un pobre para saber de su misma boca la causa de su miseria... ni para observar qué clase de miseria le aqueja, pues hay algunas tan extraordinarias, que no se alivian con la fácil limosna del ochavo... ni tampoco con el mendrugo de pan....

He watched her as she held the door for Maggie to pass through with the soup. Her hair was the color of rain-wet wheat. He had chosen her sister, Delia Crawford; Delia the dark one; Delia who died.

Davy, el camarero, les llevó las copas. Era extraño, reflexionó

Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us.

Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

Wise Men learn by other's harms; Fools by their own.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh.

Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinborough.