Quotes About Perception

Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....

It was as if the small differences mattered more than the really big ones—like you had to recognize something before you could hate it properly. No

There's three things you should never believe—weather forecasts, the canteen menu, and intel.

Humans don't connect their actions with what befalls them. Don't they perceive time as linear?" They do," said Aitassi. "They just don't see why they should do anything individually to change their future to the one they want. All eight billion of them.

I bet you were a Boy Scout. You are incomprehensible. It's just a compliment.

Threats come in all guises. Not all soldiers are young males, and not all soldiers wear uniforms.

The man hesitated and then reached across to shake Ordo's hand, surrendering soft pale civilian fingers to a black gauntlet. The look on his face said clearly that he hadn't expected to find flesh and blood inside the droid-like shell, or to retrieve his hand uncrushed afterward. "My pleasure, sir," Ordo said. It was unusually quiet in the EasyRide after that. At least the reality had registered on them.

Forever was never as long as you thought it was.

Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.

You could only ever see a thing when you were standing outside of it.

If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend.

A few years ago when she'd read Paul several passages from Fifty Shades of Grey, they'd both giggled like teenagers. The biggest fantasy in that book, Paul had said, is that he changes in the end.

Sara was reminded of yet another one of Will's traits, which was that he had an uncanny knack for keeping his mouth shut when he didn't know what to say. This resulted in the sort of awkward moments that made Sara's dating life look downright ebullient.

I'm not sure," Callie said. "As you know, cats choose not to talk because they're afraid we'll make them pay taxes.

Will always assumed that when people insisted they weren't lying about a particular thing, that meant they were lying about something else.

The two women switched to their native tongue. Kate tuned them out. She understood only half of what they were saying. As with most Americans, Dutch sounded to her more like a disease of the throat than an actual language

Jeffrey never understood how people could think a dead person was just sleeping. Death changed the air, charged it with something thick and unsettling.

He talked about how people always obsess about lies. Damn lies, But no one really understands that the real danger is truth.

women with a little bit of power can be much harder than men. Especially on other women. They have to distance themselves from the weakness of their sex. Yes?

The thing about having a bad reputation is that folks will believe just about anything people say about you.

Men never have to be uncomfortable around women. Women have to be uncomfortable around men all of the time.

It was a truth universally acknowledged that your mother was the only person in the world who could say, "Your hair looks nice," but what you heard was, "Your hair always looks awful except for this one, brief moment in time.

All of your friends told the sheriff that you danced because you loved dancing, not because you were trying to attract men.

Inside, he had forgotten what it was like to hear a woman's voice, listen to the sort of complaints that only women could have. Bad haircuts. Rude store clerks. Chipped nails. Men wanted to talk about things: cars, guns, snatch. They didn't discuss their feelings unless it was anger, and even that didn't last for long because generally they started doing something about it.