Quotes About Perception

How much does anyone ever know about another man's heart?

I see why they call you Lady Alys," he said with a mocking humor. "Managing an estate, several businesses, and children as well. You are an extraordinary woman." "Most women are extraordinary. It compensates for the fact that most men aren't".

I've been called many things in my life, but never a sacrificial penguin.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

La mayoría de las mujeres son extraordinarias. Compensa el hecho de que la mayoría de los hombres no lo sean —soltó Alys y, al instante, se mordió la lengua". (de "Pecado y virtud")

Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.

Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals.... It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph.D. from Yale.

A father had to work only half as hard as any mother to be considered twice as good.

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

The only place where housework comes before needlework is in the dictionary.

Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder.

Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sense and Sensibility?

In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.

He'd assumed that you went to school because you had to learn things, starting off with the easy stuff and moving on to the bigger issues, and once you'd learned them that was it, the way ahead opened up and thereafter life was simple and straightforward. What a joke. The older he got, the more complicated and obscure everything became.

I would like to be able to say that I threw myself into the spirit of it all, but the truth is, I still felt a bit dazed. A bit abstracted. It's going to take time, I guess. If you've thought in a certain way for many years, if you've had a picture in your mind of how things are and that picture is suddenly shown to be faulty, well, it stands to reason that it will take a while to adjust. And during that time, you're bound to feel … disconnected

children have very little concept of time. Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all.

Maybe it's a matter of tenses. Of grammar. Our love existed, it does exist, it will exist. On the great continuum of time, perhaps it is the tenses that will cease to be. What does the scientist in you think of that?

For as long as she could remember, Frances's parents has told her stories about England. But when she got there, the real England wasn't like the stories at all.

Memory is a funny thing sometimes.

Why not take a photograph of the fairies? It would stop the teasing once and for all. It would be splendid.