Quotes About Perception

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.

Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

Because your eyes are slant and slow, Because your hair is sweet to touch, My heart is high again; but oh, I doubt if this will get me much.

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.

Should they whisper false of you, never trouble to deny. Should the words they say be true, weep and storm and swear they lie!

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

I wish I could drink like a lady I can take one or two at the most Three and I'm under the table Four and I'm under the host.

She is happy, for she knows That her dust is very pretty

If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching.

They are sad books, filled with sad and skinless people. There are some who do not like such books. The world, too, is crowded with the sorrowful and the sensitive. There are many who do not like such a world.

I hate almost all rich people, but I think I'd be darling at it.

Love is like quick-silver in the hand, Sylvie. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it, and it darts away.

Es una lástima que el brillo de los ojos de una persona solo sea el brillo de los ojos de una persona, y que uno no pueda descifrar con una sola mirada qué lo produce.

el orgullo se siente herido más por lo que imagina que por la realidad.

They don't like you to tell them they've made you cry. They don't like you to tell them you're unhappy because of them. If you do, they think you're possessive and exacting. And then they hate you. They hate you whenever you say anything you really think. You always have to keep playing little games.

Mammy was both the perfect mother and the perfect slave: whites saw her as a "passive nurturer, a mother figure who gave all without expectation of return, who not only acknowledged her inferiority to whites but who loved them."23 It is important to recognize, however, that Mammy did not reflect any virtue in Black motherhood.

Along with these disparaging images of Black mothers, the media increasingly portray Black children as incapable of contributing anything positive to society.

She picked up the book from the bedside. A stray quotation from Peter should always be sought first in John Donne. She found it there, quite quickly. Methinks I lied all winter when I swore My love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

Perhaps being an actress means that in a situation like this people will constantly be questioning whether the emotions you display are genuine.

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.