Quotes About Perception

You dont know your wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.

You don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day

Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh had been weaving was beginning to unravel with disastrous and dangerous consequences.

It's so deceptively easy to get people to stop trusting their own senses. They cut you off and then put fear in you.

Good night, Senator,' I say, and he looks at me as if he's in the presence of someone unraveling, which he may be.

No, if you squinted a little bit, maybe what seemed like wasted time was, in fact, true happiness.

In the end, it wasn't so much that there was an alternative narrative--there always was--but it came down to belief: Which one did you want to believe. Which one suited you best? Or, perhaps more to the point: Which one told the story you were already telling yourself?

After the cafes of Paris with their exquisite wines and creamy fromages, crepes and steak tartare-- screaming Adore me!-- Madrid was these store-bought hunks of unyielding cheese and brick-hard baguettes, consumed in leafless Buen Retiro Park.ll Madrid, dressed as it was, tasting as it did, prideful as hell, didn't care what you thought about it on your junior-year backpacking trip. That was your problem.

Mark, she now could see, was destined for a life of absolute logic [...], while she, the Etch a Sketcher, thought herself destined for a life of squiggly lines.

Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

Look, Malia, I know your theory. But you can't go round putting people's backs up!' 'I certainly wouldn't wish to do that!' said Dr Malia. 'Well, it annoys people, you know.' 'I'm sorry about that. I try not to get in the way.' 'Well, maybe, but – It's just that you're always creeping around.

he seemed as right as rain when I saw him yesterday!" And that's what Pete and Joe said, too. Right as rain! And then I got to thinking. "That's how he was then," I said. "What's in your mind, Terry?" said Pete. "If he was fit as a fiddle one day, how come he was dead as a doornail the next?

She thinks they're just incompetence. But, then, she thinks that most things that go wrong are just incompetence.

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.

He showed the words "chocolate cake" to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. "Guilt" was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: "celebration.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

I wonder why things always seem most real to us when we lose them, he said softly.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.

They don't get any skinnier after you marry them.

there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.

Glass shot an irritated glance at Red, who had an uncanny knack for spotting problems and an utter inability for crafting solutions.

It means there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.

We can never know everything," Holmes said, "but I fear that everything knows us.