Quotes About Perception

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We distance ourselves for protection, Wear scarves when it's cold. What seems most outlandish in our autobiography Is what really happened.

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.