Quotes About Perception

men have never seemed to object to women going off to difficult missionary assignments in the far corners of the earth. The matter of women preachers became a problem only when women wanted to be pastors back home, in the sometimes affluent neighborhoods that typically had churches pastored by men.

The French would be outraged, but then, the French were habitually outraged.

Theer's no use saying pigs conner fly, when you see them catching swallows.

What do I know?' said Huw, and Gwyn was frightened by the fear in Huw's eyes. 'What do I know?... I know more than I know... I don't know what I know... The weight, the weight of it!

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

That man's gaga," said Roger when they were out of hearing. "He's so far gone he's coming back.

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

For at the very moment you have Now, it flees. It is gone. It is, on the instant, Then. Surely.

What the eye doesn't see,"' said the man, '"the heart doesn't grieve for." Or does it?

What were they thinking, those little German children? Did they see animals when they looked at us, or people? I wasn't so sure myself anymore.

So, you're English?" Fritz asked. I bristled at the insult.

They only see us when we do something they don't want us to do

Nobody liked Herr Professor Doktor Major Melcher. For one thing, he had too many titles.

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

There are errors in this book. I do not know where they are. If I did they wouldn't be there. But with close to two hundred thousand words my probabilistic mind tells me some are wrong.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.

If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. -- Speaking to a Senate Committee in 1987, as quoted in the Guardian Weekly, November 4, 2005.

I know you think you understand what you thought I said , but I'm not sure realized that what you heard isn't what I meant

I know you think you understand what you thought I said , but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard isn't what I meant

I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.

He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.

there are few situations which reveal a man's character and personality so strongly as the occupancy of a witness-box.