Quotes About Perception

Every time I see you," he murmured, "I think you couldn't possibly become any more beautiful—and you always prove me wrong.

Have you ever courted anyone, Cousin West?" Pandora asked. "Only if I was certain the lady was too intelligent ever to accept me.

Hang it all, Haven, talk to a girlfriend if all you want is a pair of ears. Guys hate it when you give us a problem and then don't let us do something about it. It makes us feel bad. And then the only way to make ourselves feel better is to rip a phone book in two or blow something up. So let's get this straight — I'm not a good listener. I'm a guy." - Jack Travis

My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.

Derek.' There was an odd smile on her face. 'Your cockney is showing.

Life is far kinder to shallow people.

I pity anyone who makes the mistake of underestimating you, Dr. Gibson." "My lady, the sentiment is returned in full.

You think you've found the perfect mate and you head for him, blinking as fast as you can, and then you find out he's a Bic lighter.

Pru, you have the depth of a puddle.

It's not what you project... it's what you don't show.

Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?" "I graduated from Cambridge," Christopher said acidly. "Should I have brought my diploma?

He's a man, dear," Amelia explained kindly. "Sustained thinking is very difficult for them." "As opposed to women," Leo retorted, "who have the remarkable ability to make decisions without doing any thinking at all.

Why does everyone always claim women are illogical when men are a hundred times more so? First they want something, then they don't, then they make irrational decisions based on secrets they won't explain and no one is supposed to question them because a man's word is final.

Just because you can look a man in the eyes when you lie doesn't mean you've fooled him.

From the very first time she'd been able to find the chinks in his armor

Thank God you know what labels to affix to people. It would be so inconvenient to have to judge them individually.

Pandora approached Gabriel in a direct way no other young woman of her rank would have dared. She had extraordinary eyes, dark blue rimmed with black, like sapphires charred at the edges. A pair of winged black brows stood out sharply against her snowdrop complexion. She smelled like night air, and white flowers, and a hint of feminine sweat. The fragrance aroused him, all his muscles tightening like bowstrings.

Rijetko kad mi se ljudi ne dopadaju zbog osobina koje ne mogu promijeniti. Obi?no daju dovoljno povoda da ih ne zavolim iz posve druk?ijih razloga.

And he raised his glass to her. It could have been a compliment. Or the most sarcastic gesture anyone had ever made to her.

With Lillian, ironically, the Bowmans had reached their highest pinnacle in having married her to Marcus, Lord Westcliff. No one could have believed that the reserved and powerful earl would have wed a headstrong girl like Lillian. But Westcliff had seen beneath Lillian's brash façade to the vulnerability and fiercely loving heart she tried so hard to concede.

You're very good at organizing your feelings, aren't you?" Christopher had asked dryly. "I suppose I am. I wish I could organize yours. At present they seem to resemble an overturned drawer of neckcloths." "Not neckcloths," he said. "Flatware, with sharp edges." Audrey had smiled. "I pity those who find themselves in the way of your feelings.

No young woman wants to get married after reading Tolstoy

Having your own church doesn't make you a good guy. It only makes you tax-exempt.

He'd always preferred newness, associating old things with decay and dowdiness.