Quotes About Observation

I fixed my eyes in the vicinity of the yellowish-brown darned spot around the little green button at your breast.

What a surprise attack. To imagine that you perceived that my mask was a mask and nevertheless went on pretending to be deceived.

I must be continually alert to the mask, as one is to handling complicated machinery.

Verrücktheiten können ganz normal sein, solange man sie selbst tut; beobachtet man einen anderen dabei, rümpft man die Nase, dreht sich rasch um und geht davon.

Gall 3rst had this idea as a young boy when he noticed that those of his classmates who excelled at memorizing school assignments had prominent eyes.

We discovered that the scrupulously strict were correspondently keen to discern suggestions of sex where nobody else would think of looking for them.

Why do you observe the splinter in your brother's eye and never notice the plank in your own?

Things are happening to you, and you feel them happening, but except for this one fact, you have no connection with them, and no key to the cause or meaning of them.

When showering life-giving words on another human, don't just pick the people you know well. Notice the one who least expects to be noticed.

My marriage to Kincaid is a bit more complicated than I thought. There are certain things we don't agree on, and—" "You wish to change his mind about something," Gregor finished. "How did you know?" "I've noticed that women often have a desire to change men, even the ones they love." "I've noticed that, too." Dougal frowned.

Still,he noticed that though the house was in poor shape, the gardens were perfect. The paths were well lined, the flower beds filled with roses and lilacs, the trees well trimmed. He smiled darkly.His beautiful little angel of trouble must have run out of time.

Lord MacLean, pray have a seat. That chair is safe. And half the size of a regular seat. She dared him to be comfortable in it. He eyed the chair and shook his head. I believe I'll stand. As you wish. She smoothed her skirts, the movement of her slender hands drawing Dougal's gaze. She had the most kissable mouth and the most intriguing-and challenging-blue eues he'd ever seen.

Sophia stood staring blankly up the stairs for an entire minute before it dawned on her that he'd used the kiss to befuddle her. Blast it all! She fumed to herself as she walked to the front window and stationed herself there. Time went by. The clock ticked. A bee buzzed against the windowpane. Dust settled. After thirty minutes had passed, Sophia had had enough. She gave the empty lane one last glance, then went upstairs.

You learn a lot about a person by the way he plays cards. Then it was a good thing no one had seen her play.

I was not giving you a heated look." "What do you call it then?" "I was merely appreciating your, ah…finer points." "Yes, well, I could do the same for you except—" "Except what?" "They are all under the desk.

Nonsense," Ophelia said stoutly. "They're happy sheep. You can tell." "How?" Sophia demanded. Ophelia regarded the ewes for a moment, then suddenly broke into a huge grin. "Maybe you can tell they 're happy sheep because they don't feel baaaaad.

Financial standing, a social position beyond what she has now, and a husband to dote upon her every wish. What more could she ask for? Maybe youth. Vigor. Teeth . Lord Cameron has his own teeth. Margaret narrowed her eyes at the other candidate. I'm not so certain about Munro. They seemed somewhat clacky at dinner, so I'm suspicious.

I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study.

I'm seeing so much of America today," Luya kept telling Lowell in nervously accented English. It became a personal catchphrase for him — whenever things were not to his liking, he'd say that — I'm seeing so much of America today.

Here is my objection to submarines and space travel: not enough windows. What difference does it make if you're in outer space or underwater, or wherever, if you can't feel, or hear, or see or smell it?

You might be shown the photos of the space chimps in their helmets, grinning from ear to ear, and you might feel an urge to tell the rest of your class that chimps grin like that only when they're frightened, that no amount of time among humans will change it. Those happy-looking space chimps in those pictures are frankly terrified and maybe you just barely stop yourself from saying so.

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don't. More stars are always better than less.