Quotes About Perception

And find that dark, too blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet, and dark wings.

In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.

Ask the world to reveal its quietude not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

Unfortunately, it is also true that the age's interests often color the past with unhistoric hues.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

You can't hide poverty and love because they appear to people easily and fast.

Hear carefully when someone is speaking, if you missed it, too bad

He understood everything: He could keep his eyes open and the buffalo wouldn't appear, or close them and it would.

What I have to tell you is this: I am resolved that dancing is to be my path. I know that to be a dancer is to be considered in our world little more than a prostitute. But you cannot imagine what is happening here in Berlin. It is different back home, but in Europe dance is being reborn as something more than cheap entertainment by loose women.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.

Ideas are facts too; the belief, whether true or false, that the British were greasing cartridges with animal fat started a revolution in India. For we are what we imagine, as much as what we do.

All of us identify who we are in contrast with who we are not, and the 'who we are not' changes all the time.

The qualities that make the soul cling to rebirth or to illusion are vividly encompassed by a Korean word, won, which has a cluster of meanings, including resentment, ingratitude, regret for lost opportunities, and a knot in the stomach; this state of the soul results from being poorly treated or unappreciated while living or from any of the many situations covered by the rubric "to die screaming.

I'm afraid truth isn't the only thing that matters in law, Suzannah. And out in the real world, it doesn't matter at all.

He leaned toward her, lowered his voice. "I don't trust her. I can't even tell you why, but there's something.

A man could learn all he needed to know about women if he went to the Narberth Rugby Football Club bar for a drink and listened.

Wendy Lawton

My childhood was kind of a blur, to tell you the truth. I needed better glasses.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

Lesly: I don't think you're insane. Jackie-O: You don't? Lesly: No. Jackie-O: You don't think I'm an eensie weensie bit insane? Lesly: I don't think you're insane. I think you're just spoiled. Jackie-O: Oh please, if everyone around here is going to start telling the truth, I'm going to bed.

woman told her on her first visit. "Otherwise I'll never hear you and you'll stand out here for days." "Hold your horses, I'm here, I'm here," a familiar voice calls now, from the other side of the door. When it flies open, Clara momentarily expects, as always, to find herself looking at an adolescent tomboy with red pigtails

My eyes are bright, my hair has come loose from its ribbon, and Stella's scarf is waving around my neck. But that's not what I see when I look at the picture. I see three unlikely friends holding hands. And Ryan, Kenny, and Melanie are standing behind us, rapt. And in the sky above us, I see a miracle.

All those people in their black-and-white worlds - they have no idea what they're missing