Quotes About Perception

What does it take for a person to be able to recognize evil as it unfolds? To see with foresight and acuity .

I want to say, she begins again, I want to say that I have not always tried hard enough to know. That this 'moral compass' Claire talks about may not have been as helpful in my own personal life as it was in the wider political context. Sometimes it is easier to see clearly from a distance. And what is up close -- what is up close -- she falters -- is harder to make out. In the audience someone coughs. There is so much gray between the black and the white ... and this is where most of us live.

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken by the Sea.

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?

It didn't make me cry, it made me mad. But he was breaking down in front of the world, and, again, I felt responsible. How many times are women made to feel responsible for the actions of men? I know now that

A girl sees what she likes, a boy likes what he sees.

I'd rather see the world from a different angle.

My delusionary hell does not agree with yours.

How is it you're so beautiful and so fucking ugly inside! You know it wouldn't take much to make your outside look like your inside!! I could just chop your brain out! It doesn't deserve such a pretty body...

She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.

She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow.

In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time.

Maladies, poorly interpreted, can't be cured.

It made him shy, they way he felt the first time they stood together in a mirror.

They don't understand why I want to take such a risk. These reactions don't surprise me. A transformation, especially one that is deliberately sought, is often perceived as something disloyal, threatening.

What was stored in memory was distinct from what was deliberately remembered, Augustine said.

He especially enjoyed watching Mrs. Sen as she chopped things, seated on newspapers on the living room floor. Instead of a knife she used a blade that curved like the prow of a Viking ship, sailing to battle in distant seas. The blade was hinged at one end to a narrow wooden base.

He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality.

She believed she was not significant enough to cast a shadow of her own.

I hope you don't mind my asking," Douglas said, "but I noticed the statue outside, and are you guys Christian? I thought you were Indian.

So that she began to see herself more clearly, as a thin film of dust was wiped from a sheet of glass.

He was blind to self-constraints, like an animal incapable of perceiving certain colors.