Quotes About Perception

Those who not love what they see, will have a unpleasant emotional feeling about it. Degenen die niet houden van wat ze zien, zullen een onaangenaam emotioneel gevoel over hebben.

I have never seen so many ugly dresses. I cannot find this dress, which was woven out of daydreams and naiveté.

We look for visions of heaven," Oswald Chambers had written, "and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us." He

To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower,' " he quoted from Blake. " 'Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour,' " she replied.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. Goethe

All that I have seen," Mr. Emerson said and I say with him, "teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.

No two persons every read the same book.—Edmund Wilson "Nor does any one person ever reread the same book!

I thought you drove down here in a Buick," said Absalom Greer, "but it looks like you've come drivin' a hard bargain.

came pouring out, nor had he ever heard anything like it; it was so clear

weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

Who ever thought up the word "Mammogram?" Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone.

Whoever thought up the word 'mammogram'? Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone.

Av alle blendverk livet truer på oss, er dette det farligste; å tro at det bare er én virkelighet og at den er forståelig.

In a Kenya game park once I saw a family of wart-hogs waddling ungainly and in a tremendous hurry across the grass. Contemptuous though I am of those who find animals comic…still I could not help laughing at this quaint spectacle. My African companion rightly rebuked me. "You should not laugh at them," he said. "They are beautiful to each other.

I was three or perhaps four years old when I realized that I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl (AS: I don't share that part of her feelings fully). I remember the moment well, and it is the earliest memory of my life.

Clem caught her eye across the table. It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

Part of what Brahms and others could never quite get over was that Bruckner the composer of epic symphonies behaved, much of the time, like a nincompoop.

We tend to listen to Mozart with ears trained by Beethoven, and that's not the best way to listen to Mozart.

I've barely said five words to you. What indication could you possibly have that I am a Yankee?" "Well, we could start with the words 'what indication.' Someone from south of the Mason-Dixon would have said, 'Who the hell are you calling a Yankee?' Then we would have fought.

Lord save us all from the machinations of an intelligent female.

True,'' Ida Belle said, ''but despite all of that, he's still interested. I may be an old maid, but I know what male interest looks like.'' Gertie waved a hand at her. ''Walter slipping you a free pack of toilet paper with your grocery order hardly qualifies as the ultimate in male interest. But despite Ida Belles overblown description of her knowledge of how men think, I think she's right this time

Some say the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom," Gertie said. "I think the fear of women is the beginning of wisdom. At least for men.

He looked confused. "Don't all of you carry guns?" "Yes," I said. "But we're prepared to shoot people. Can you shoot someone?" His eyes widened. "God, no! I'm vegan." "Eating them is optional," Gertie said.

I mean, not when he was actually dead but from before, you know, when he wasn't dead?" "I get it.