Quotes About Perception

Don't mistake my niceness for a weakness... it's a strategy.

I try to see the good in everyone and try to be as nice as I can be but being a good person makes people think that you can get away with things.

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

If your house smells good, people perceive you as a good person. If there is a bad smell, people may perceive you another way.

A good man will see something new in a woman everyday, but each day it will make him feel the same way he did the first time he saw her.

A woman's faults are many. Men have only two, Everything they say and Everything they do...

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

A wise woman likes but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe and leaves before she is left.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me

Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by butterflies, Unnoticed as a single dew That on the acre lies

How can you understand me when I don't understand myself?

Silence can be heard the loudest, while standing all alone in a crowded room.

When you're waiting alone in the car...everyone outside automatically becomes a rapist...

When I say never mind I really mean you should have listened the first time.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.

It`s not so much that they don`t want me to grow up. It`s that they`re annoyed that I`m growing up adjusted. They`d much rather I was growing up and going wild and crashing cars.

Sometimes you can't tell if you're just in a bad mood or everyone around you is being annoying.

No one ever answers my questions, but they always question my answers.

Yes dad, Every guy I know is my boyfriend...

I wish my friends thought I was as awesome as my dog thinks I am.

I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman.

The bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards.