Quotes About Perception

There are no ordinary feelings just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked-over cans of paint. Are feelings ever succinct? The haiku is quick but its ripples to the horizon go.

After a moment, he turned sharply to me. 'Are you quite all right?' 'Yes, perfectly. Why do you ask?' 'Because I have just called you contrary and you did not bother to contradict me. I thought you might be ill.

Men, I had often observed, were never happier than when they believed they were imparting wisdom.

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.

The truth is a hard mirror, and I am in no mood to look upon my reflection.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

Only women are ever called persnickety," Mary Alice said. "Men get to be 'detail oriented.

Should I be in distress? In a meadow? You mean if the cows organize some sort of attack? I have extensive experience with cows. They almost never do that." "Forget

Aunt Nell used to say it was not decent to have violet eyes, that they were a telltale sign of bad nature, like ginger hair or a hunchback.

Brisbane put one in mind of wolves and lithe jungle cats, while Edward conjured images of seraphim and slim young saints. It required an entirely different aesthetic altogether to appreciate Brisbane, one that I lacked. Entirely.

Was Beatrice capable of such machinations? I could not say. Our acquaintance was of a brief duration, but she was American and, in my experience, Americans are capable of anything.

You have large opinions for so small a person.

Gentlemen are champion sulkers so long as one doesn't call the behavior by that name.

It's the cleverest thing I have ever seen,' she pronounced. 'At first glance, you look like any other countrywoman, but you can move like a man in it.' 'I can move like a scientist,' I corrected. 'And that is more to the point.

Verá, doctor, los aristócratas somos como los funámbulos. No nos damos cuenta de lo que hay debajo de nosotros.-Julia Grey

it all fell into place and I simply knew, as one knows that fire is hot and sleep is sweet. It was just that sudden, that elemental, and it occurred to me then that the truth is precisely that--elemental. It is the essence of itself; it cannot be argued or winnowed down to something less than what it is.

He smiled again. "Your reputation undoubtedly precedes you." I bristled. "I am not that curious!" "You are curious as any cat, my love...

Yo no he dicho eso. Tiene usted el don de sacar el peor significado posible de mis palabras. Nicholas Brisbane

We are mere humans, Veronica. We are destined to prefer beauty to ugliness." His

He was a kind fellow, though, Lorenzo. Old Lord Templeton-Vane held a country dance here in our honour. Lorenzo was the only one of us besides Tiberius to ask Elspeth Gresham to stand up with him." He looked around as if to make certain we were not overheard. "I don't like to say it, but that woman scares the life out of me, and there's no two ways about it.

Six-year-olds can't be assholes," Mary Alice says. "The fact that you think they can says a lot." "Yeah, it says that you've clearly never met a six-year-old.

He smelled of leather and wool and tasted of apples and I could have died in that moment and counted myself happy.

For my part, I ignored her jibes, as I had long ago formed the opinion that it is best never to notice children at all in any capacity lest they take a simple greeting as an overture for discussion -- or worse yet, touching by grubby, sweet-sticky fingers.

I had forgot," I said slowly, "Forgot what?" "That talking to you is like staring into a carnival looking glass. Up is down, down is up, Nothing makes sense." "Of course it does." His voice was gentle and his smile back in evidence. "Veronica, do you think I enjoy playing the villain? I loathe it. I want only to be left alone, but like any creature, I will fight if I am cornered...