Quotes About Perception

Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

So often women enter into love covenants with those who come disguised as Mr. Right. Like the men of Israel who never took the time to look beyond the surface, some women hear words and romantic gestures and take them at face value, without inquiring of the Lord.

Which jolted her to see one more thing: that they were both men. Nothing less, but also nothing more. And Clara felt a pressure that was so much a part of her she hadn't recognized its existence until that moment it suddenly dispersed.

This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.

Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else.

Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.

The Empress Marie-Louise once asked me if I believed in ghosts. 'I find it hard to believe in something I've never seen,' I told her. But perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt.

Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.

Arjun: ...the men are talking because you're beautiful. Sita: ...I would much rather they talk about me because I'm skilled.

For nonreaders, life is simply what they touch and see, not what they feel when they open the pages of a play and are transported to the Forest of Arden or Illyria. Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else. A tree is a tree to them; it is never a magical doorway to another world populated with beings that don't exist here.

perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself. —JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID

If it can be described, it can be understood. If it can be understood, it need not be feared.

How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing

Eigenlijk had hij het al veel Lichten en Donkers geweten, maar hij had het niet willen toegeven. Zonder Staart was niet-wolf.

Hoe wist je dat ze eraan kwamen?' 'Dat wist ik niet, Wolf vertelde het me.' Ze keek verbaasd, en toen bang. 'Je kunt echt met hem praten, hé?

Drie pijlen om een volwassenen everzwijn mee neer te schieten. Dat was bijna hetzelfde als een eland met een bosje bloemen doodmeppen.

Het voelde of ik werd losgetrokken, had Torak gezegd. Het voelde alsof ik de vis was.

But the thing to remember, Jack, is that it's only an echo. It's like a footprint or a shadow. It can't hurt you. All it can do is frighten.

It's real. I saw it. It isn't alive.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

Maybe there was symmetry everywhere, and the patterns of our days held no less certainty than the mathematical patterns of the universe. Maybe, in order to see the patterns, one simply needed to take a few steps back, turn the page upside down, approach everything from a different angle.

I think I know who you are," he finally said. "It took me a minute, since you're better looking than I thought you'd be, but I think I've got it.