Quotes About Perception

And while she pretended he was someone else, he would pretend she had no reason to imagine he was anyone other than who he was.

maybe only those who faced death daily were able to recognize that courages could be as quiet as a man's thoughts

You married me thinking I would force myself on you?" "I married you knowing that women have very little say in how they are treated.

That is the thing about monsters, Pettypeace. They are monsters because they can delude people into believing they aren't.

sometimes, silence can be very loud

But there is all kinds of beauty in the world, some of it not always clearly visible. Even those spiders you hate have it within them to create the most intricate and beautiful webs.

Miss Carson, you need to step outside and slap me again. The side you hit is mostly dead. You need to hit the other side of my face so I can feel it like I should.

How long do you think it will take her to figure out who you are?" "She is blind." "Then that makes two of you." Alejandro

Funny how people could perceive attributes differently. What one person favored, another rejected.

Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. They were invented by boys who had never gotten over their disappointment that accompanying their own orgasm there wasn't a big boom sound.

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.

A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.

Bilinçle kavrad???m?z ve yapt???m?z ?eylerin, bireysel geli?imimizle hiçbir ilgisi olmayan gizli kalm?? duyusal izlenimlere k?yasla hayat?m?z üzerindek? etkisi ne kadar az.

I was the only student she'd taught who'd actually known any deaf people. Most of the students in my courses were there because they'd seen a movie or read a Helen Keller book.

If the students didn't understand the charade, I'd turn and write on the blackboard, but I tried to avoid even that. I didn't want the students automatically translating everything from sign to English—that slowed the process.

And then she made a sign that sent a chill up my spine. It was a slang sign meaning "I'm deaf," but it's crudely done, made by putting the thumb in the ear and turning the rest of the hand downward—almost as if the hand is a donkey's ears.

One of the criticisms leveled at deaf people is that they're rigid thinkers. For

What's interesting about the studies is that prelingually deaf people (people such as my parents, who were born deaf or who lost their hearing early on) have no interior monologue.

In most of us there is a tiny voice we consult as part of our thought processes. Deaf people literally don't hear themselves thinking.