Quotes About Perception

The part of Cardenia's brain in charge of gestalting slammed everything together and shoved it into her consciousness.

Pensé que había muerto y estaba en el cielo. Como estaba oficialmente difunto en la Tierra y volaba por el sistema solar en una nave espacial, supongo que no andaba muy desencaminado.

generally perfectly okay for most other folks. When a lie has negative consequences, people dislike it. But otherwise? They move on, and eventually the lie as a lie is forgotten, or in this case, codified as the foundation of religious practice and buffed and sanded into something prettier and more congenial.

the assumption that simple = stupid. But it's not true; indeed, I find from personal experience that the stupidest writers are the ones whose writing is positively baroque in form.

How much?" Patz said nothing but gave Kiva a look that she interpreted as saying a whole fuckton.

he wasn't much of a natural in anything. This was something he sensed early and hid with overcompensation, which is why so many of his training squad members thought he was an asshole.

Fundamentally, there's no connection between whether someone is personally nice and whether they pursue an agenda inimical to what you perceive as desirable.

We all looked. "Mate, those look like fossilized turds," Kahurangi said. "That's why we call them poopfruit, yes," Tom said. "You need to talk to your marketing people," I suggested. "They taste better than they look." "They would have to, wouldn't they?

I thought I asked to dispense with bullshit." "There's bullshit and then there's bullshit, Lady Kiva." "Well, you're right about that, at least.

Your president only speaks for Americans. American movies speak for your world. Who hasn't seen Wizard of Oz? Or Jaws? Or Star Wars? We've seen them, and we're not even from this planet.

You're very good with children," the woman said, noting Sorvalh's responses and tone. "I spend my days dealing with human diplomats," Sorvalh said. "Children and diplomats can be remarkably similar.

When he's done, he turns to Holmes and says 'What does the night sky tell you, Holmes?' And Holmes says, 'That some bastard has stolen our tent!

Word is that you're not all that popular on the committee. The word 'asshole' gets attached to you a lot." "I'm just being me.

I'm guessing you thought I was way off on your political philosophy but right on the button about the other two. Just think about that for a while.

They look like terrain, until they don't." Tom pointed to one of them. "That's Kevin." "Really?" Niamh said. "Fucking Kevin?

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with," I said. "Don't ask me why. It just works that way.

I had a feeling that as long as I didn't admit to murdering adorable kittens in front of children, I was going to get the gig.

Por supuesto, nada de todo esto tiene el menor sentido si te detienes a pensarlo —añadió Hester. —Nunca lo ha tenido.

Estaba pensando. En eso de ser ficticio y tal.

Tom grinned through his mask; I saw it through the eye crinkles

A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon.

Our thinking minds are so full of beliefs about how things "should be" rather than how things "are" that we refuse to accept reality as it is. We

all our suffering is an expression and a reflection of the distance between reality and our desires and beliefs.

So you see, a man's history when other folks tell it is a pitiful confusion.