Quotes About Observation

Le vi la mirada cansada, triste.

Alicia Gris sees what the rest don't see. Her mind works differently from the rest. Where everyone else sees a locked door, she sees a key. Where others lose track, she picks up the trail. It's a gift, one could say. And the best thing is that no one sees her coming.

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. As I said, pure biology.

What was essential, he argued, was not what the pursuer could see or guess, but what was within range of the pursued person's vision.

Vojska služi samo kako bi se otkrilo koliki je udio budala u stanovništvu, smatrao je. A to se otkrije ve? u prva dva tjedna, nisu potrebne dvije godine. Vojska, brak, Crkva i banka: ?etiri jaha?a apokalipse. (...)

future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press.

El silencio hace que hasta los necios parezcan sabios durante un minuto.

La maggior parte degli uomini, inclusi quelli che osservavano per professione, confondevano il vedere con il guardare, e quasi sempre si soffermavano sui dettagli ovvi che velavano la lettura al di là di ciò che era irrilevante. Leandro diceva sempre che scomparire nello sguardo dell'avversario era un'arte il cui apprendimento poteva durare un'intera vita.

Me: The only way to describe the Earth these days is to compare it to rotten food or rotten sex. Georges: It doesn't sound like it's changed much. Sylvia: Nothing ever changes. Kathy: Everything changes. You've just forgotten how to see change. You're blind to it.

I'm not the first or the last to stand on a hillock, watching the man she married prove to the world he's a total, utter, absolute, Grade A pillock. - Mrs Icarus

The stars are filming us for no one.

Went to the Zoo, I said to Him- Something about that chimpanzee over there reminds me of you.

Piaget has helped teachers of young children to see how important it is for children to experience whatever we want them to learn about.

The turtle whose head Is within his shell Thinks the world outside Is going well.

He was discomfited to see how easily men (and women as well) stepped from the train to station platform, from platform to train – with ease, with levity, laughing and talking and greeting each other as though oblivious to the abrupt geographical shifts they were making, and disrespectful of the distance and differences they entered. Many were hatless, their clothes brightly colored. The cases they carried appeared, from the way they handled them, to be feather-light.

It can be seen as a discussion of the nature of evidence—the way in which there is no single truth about anyone's life, but as many truths as there are observers.

If Pauline should see him close his eyes, she would never be offended or suspect boredom. She is fully conscious of her powers, appreciates the importance of good food, knows that books, particularly fiction, form a valuable core of experience, and believes she can trust Cruzzi absolutely to understand and follow the intricacies of her observations.

Ms. Rogers sighed softly. Just keep a weather eye, she said. Grant looked out the window. But it's a bright sunny day. Papa laughed. She means keep our eyes open for anything or anyone unusual or suspicious, he explained.

He'd rehearsed in his mind the greeting he would give, the posture he would have, the extent to which he would let the kids hanging around see what was happening between them.

Everybody was outdoors. This was the walkingest place Brian had ever seen.

All human life seemed to be out there. And it was not a pretty sight.

A stranger in a small community is always an object of keen interest and he had seen more than one curtain twitch as he passed by.

As the music took wings and began to soar, a movement caught Flavia's eye

Poor old Rhett, Sawyer mumbled. What about Rhett? I just feel sorry for him if he does come to Burnt Boot. He won't have a pretty little redhead to watch his back.