Quotes About Perception

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Toda sociedad es un sistema de interpretación del mundo (...) Su propia identidad no es otra cosa que ese "sistema de interpretación", ese mundo que ella crea. Y esa es la razón por la cual la sociedad percibe como un peligro mortal todo ataque contra ese sistema de interpretación; lo persigue como un ataque contra su identidad, contra sí misma

[Of Servius Galba:] He seemed more important than a private citizen while he was a private citizen, and in the opinion of all he was capable of rule—if he had not ruled.

Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all ("Steps Going Up" aka "Guillotine" aka "Men Must Die")

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Maldonado's face was ghastly. 'That' she said, pointing below the bed where the cat lurked, 'and that' - pointing to what lay on the floor - 'prove it was no dream. Do dreams leave marks behind them?' ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

We don't marry women, he thought; we marry angels, and in this moment or two of the marriage act, the scales fall from our eyes and we see them as they really are, perhaps never to glimpse it again. How lovely she is, how unearthly lovely.

I wasn't that good you know. What I was was a guy who could write a little, publishing in magazines surrounded by people who couldn't write at all. So I looked pretty good. But I never thought I was that good at all. All that I thought was that I tried to tell the truth.

Murder is such an elastic term, isn't it? ("Mind Over Murder")

Fisher just stood there lost in thought, without saying anything. There is always a rational explanation for everything in this world - whether it's the true one or not. Maybe it is better so. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

She passed through them without a glance. The living have no time to look at death; they cannot see it even if they try.

How do you go about finding out who the best-loved woman in a guy's life is? Ask him?

Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of ground your feet were placed upon, guided by chalk marks, he would not see the same things you did.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.

Faith is like a radar that sees through the fog.

And while from inside we would hear coughs and stirrings, there was never a rustle in the listeners out the door.

Faith is like radar which sees through the fog—the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces!

Drop your lower jaw!" Mr. Moorman called down the long room. "Keep your mouth open and it will save your eardrums.

He hung naked on the cross. I had not known—I had not thought. . . . The paintings, the carved crucifixes showed at the least a scrap of cloth. But this, I suddenly knew, was the respect and reverence of the artist. But oh—at the time itself, on that other Friday morning—there had been no reverence. No more than I saw in the faces around us now.

Maga nije bila kadra vjerovati u imena, morala je stvar dotaknuti prstom i tek bi je tada prihva?ala.