Quotes About Perception

There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.

When blondes have more fun, do they know it?

When men age they're called sophisticated. When women age they ain't called at all.

There is none so troubled as one who thinks himself perfectly sane.

Luck is merely a product of the happily delusional mind.

Sometimes what really damages us is not so much the controversy but the impression that we don't really understand others' objections.

You can learn to project more power without becoming meaner. In fact, that's your problem. You think mean and powerful are the same thing.

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow - moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going

When you can see the colors of the feathers, you'll also understand how you can expand your borders to infinity.

Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long they stand around chatting before they shoot you.

You have to be careful who you let define your good.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

Yes, yes, our countries are going to be friends, at last!' I didn't bother pointing out the minor detail that Obama wasn't my president. It didn't seem important. American, British, whatever. Great Satan, Little Satan, we had all been merged into one by the Islamic Republic's propaganda machine. No different from how Persians and Arabs are all one and the same in many western minds, I supposed.

The great and only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Khomeini and Khamenei were everywhere; on giant billboards at the roadside, as vast lurid murals on concrete apartment blocks and, less impressively, on sagging vinyl banners outside schools and mosques. With their almost identical appearance and surnames they reminded me of an Islamic Thomson and Thompson, the hapless detectives of the Tintin books. But that, I feared, was where the similarity ended.

I came to the conclusion that it was impossible to classify anyone in Iran, and herein lay its fascination.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

Le bonheur est une illusion d'optique, deux miroirs qui se renvoient la même image à l'infini. N'essayez pas de remonter à l'image d'origine, il n'y en a pas.

It's all in your head -- you just have no idea how big your head is.

If we can't wake up to the fact that deep down inside we are good, then we deserve to remain asleep dreaming we are evil.

Aeons change, not as the result of some war in heaven or astrological event. Rather they are simply the consequence of some improved modification in human consciousness. Obviously, such a mutation needs to be universal and fundamental: something most of us share with our fellows, something as simple as how we perceive our relationship with the Sun.