Quotes About Perception

Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.

Talia: I was brought up to respect older people and peasants...not that you're... Jack: (clears throat) Quit while you're ahead Meryl: Ahead? She just called mom and old peasant.

But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she laughed, reading her book, and one time she even cried. I didn't know how anyone could make such a big deal about books.

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast , they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.

Is it enough to be a princess, when being a princess means nothing?

It's strange though. People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore, do you? It's just the way they look.

He bursts into tears, and not some manlike tears either, where you pretend you're brushing something off your face and, incidentally, wipe a tear. Nope. He starts bawling like a kid who spilled his Slushie...

Funny how you can know something and yet not believe it's possible.

I can see into his soul, and it is beautiful.

Surface beauty...is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see.

Meg makes a face and lays her hand on my arm. "And why, exactly, would John want to see Eurotrash?" "Hello?" Ryan says. "Because he's a seventeen-year old guy with normal male urges, and she's got-" He holds both hands out from his chest. "Really pretty eyes," I complete his sentence.

But it's not enough. I don't look human. If I went outside, people would scream at the sight of me. Looks matter to most people. That's reality in the world." "Not my world." I petted Pilot. "I like your world, Will, but it doesn't have a very big population. I'm going to let her go.

We judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

sono pecore,che seguono il gregge. Votano per persne cosiddette popolari perchè è facile. La bellezza esteriore: capelli biondi,occhi azzurri" - mi stava guardando - " è sempre facile riconoscerla. Ma se qualcuno è coraggioso, forte, in gamba, è difficile vederlo

The thing about Sarah was, she always did what I wanted her to do. Always. And that was because she was me, and I was her. She never disappointed me. She always showed up. Wyatt disappointed me precisely because he was real. He was a real boy who could not climb my tower in the slippery rain.

Tal vez juzgamos demasiado a las personas por como lucen porque es mucho más fácil que ver lo que realmente importa

Maybe the crazy people are the only ones who know the truth.

I tell him the ugly duckling grew up to be a huge asshole." "Why?

Unfair. So. Unfair. Someone says something about you, and just because they said it first—because you were trying to be nice and not complain, you're in the position of denying it

beautiful; I was smart, but that was never enough, never what I wanted. I was nice, and no one cared. I was a lot of things, but beautiful? Not me.

Kendra Speaks: The Story of a Mermaid Who Should Have Left Well Enough Alone I did not know what an angel was, but if it comforted him to believe me one, I saw no harm.

Surface beauty, blond hair, blue eyes is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's hard to see.

L'apparence compte, pour la plupart des gens. Telle est la réalité du monde

He's not that hot. And hotness only goes so far. After you've known someone a while, you stop looking, I think. Character is more important.