Quotes About Perception

What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border.

IF YOU BELIEVE THE DOCTORS," Salisbury once remarked, "nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.

But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be stupid.

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

The shop for fuller figures could be seen through broad, green leaves, its windows full, not of dresses, but fat zeros, pot-bellied legless sixes and bosomy eights, and threes like pregnant, primitive goddesses. In the teashop the chairs were being stood on top of the tables and made a forest of their own, sprouting upwards in fountains of coloured leaves.

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

It's so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.

Hai sempre avuto questa capacità d'infilarti sotto la pelle degli altri…

Puedes fotografiar simplemente la realidad o puedes buscar -¿el qué? -Algo que pasa pero no se ve, aparece luego.

What does the father represent? For Martin Luther, our fathers are godly to us: how we see our fathers has a lot to do with how we see, or don't see, God: for God manifests himself in the father.

How can this beautiful world contain such ugliness as I have seen?

The mind is not sex-typed.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

You have a low opinion of yourself, Helen." "I wasn't born with it." "Where did you get it?" 'The story" she said, "is too long to tell, and too dull to listen to.

The two women looked at each other as if through the periscopes of enemy submarines across a fathomless and crawling sea.

The sidewalks swarmed with people, the night was full of the noises of the living. They struck Miss Clarvoe's ears strangely, like sounds from another planet.

It didn't even seem ironic to him that he should be planning remarks about truth and justice when, in fact, his whole life had been a marathon race, with truth a few jumps ahead of him and justice a few jumps behind. He had never caught up with the one, and the other had never caught up with him.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Rickman heard the plaintive note in Foster's voice, and they exchanged a quick, amused glance. Foster misunderstood. 'Him?' he exclaimed. 'The rugged Roman profile was all very well in Gladiator, but we're in the twenty-first century now, love.' 'Funny,' she shot back, 'I keep getting a whiff of caveman. Just so you know — the

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

Waspish tongues often go with plain faces.

One of the hardest things to deal with in a relationship is when you can see the beautiful essence of of your partner, but your partner can't see his or her own essence - or yours.