Quotes About Perception

Ones Turd smells the same be of Servant or Prince (English Translation)

Había entrado en la cocina para buscar un ángulo de tiro y murió sin darse cuenta, como si el movimiento de ir hacia la luz de la ventana lo hubiera sacado del mundo.

No me interesa curarme, sólo quiero cambiar las alucinaciones. ¿Se

La gente, acá, aprende a vivir en las orillas de la desgracia. Los turistas llaman a esta miseria color local.

Cómo podía ser que nadie comprendiera? se había preguntado Tardewski. ¿O sólo leemos lo que ya hemos leído, una y otra vez, para buscar en las palabras lo que sabemos que está en ellas, sin que sorpresa alguna pueda variar el sentido?

However well these mild-mannered intellects do on the tests, lack of air time unfairly implies that they are not suited to the rough-and-tumble world of big business. On the contrary, they may be brilliantly equipped to quietly outmaneuver a bombastic opponent, yet as a result of the air time yardstick, they may lose out to peers who tend to be openly aggressive, individualistic, and terror-tested, yet underexposed to teamwork, ego control, soft tactics, and compromise.

Bernays set various goals: convince the American people of the Communist presence in Guatemala; convince members of Congress the issue is a winner; convince the CIA, which can actually do something on the ground, it's time to act. Bernays wouldn't make the world better for bananas, he would make the world better for American politicians, who would make the world better for the CIA, which would make the world better for bananas. Indirection.

Richard A. LaFleur

startling—the Romans themselves never read silently, but always aloud; they regarded language as speaking and listening, and viewed writing as merely a convenient means of recording communications spoken and heard.

When a style becomes opaque, when you look at it rather than looking through it, the schoolmarmly bell of reproach begins to ring.

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?

But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as the sky was the horizon, usually broken by trees and hedges.

Are you angry, El-ahrairah?' asked Lord Frith. "'No, my lord,' replied El-ahrairah, 'I am not angry. But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not

One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

Although there was no enemy or danger to be perceived, they felt the apprehension and doubt of those who have come unaware upon some awe-inspiring place where they themselves are paltry fellows of no account.

I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

He was part of my dream, of course—but then I was part of his dream, too. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

He looked as though he knew how to take care of himself. There was a shrewd, buoyant air about him as he sat up, looked round and rubbed both front paws over his nose.

Why do the men come, do you suppose?" asked Fiver. "Who knows why men do anything? They may drive cows or sheep in the fields, or cut wood in the copses. What does it matter? I'd rather dodge a man than a stoat or a fox.

Molti uomini dicono di godersi l'inverno, ma ciò che in realtà si godono è il sentirsi al riparo da esso.L'inverno non può nuocere, quindi accresce il loro senso di sicurezza, di ingegnosità.

Those are rabbits down there, trotting along like a lot of squirrels with nuts. How can that be right?

Why should he think me cruel Or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was Before the world was made. W. B. Yeats, A Woman Young and Old