Quotes About Interpretation

From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.

Truth, in other words, was a matter of perspective.

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.

So are you telling me… he composed his thoughts. Are you telling me that if you told the last story again, and changed the young woman to a young man, then somewhere in history that same young woman would suddenly grow a beard? Tallis laughed at the image. I don't know, she said. I suppose so.

If I stop to describe exactly how scared I was every time something scary happens, we'll be here for the next ten years. So do me a favour. At parts like this imagine how you'd've felt, and we'll both do fine.

Origami artists have made birds 1/64th of an inch long, and life-size elephants three yards high.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

You read too much and understand too little.

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess

But only a fool thought he knew what was in a woman's head just because she had a smile on her face.

People had a way of folding what they saw into what they knew and what they wanted to believe.

This was not the first time she had squeezed meanings from his words that he never knew were in them.

Women could compress a great deal into one look.

Who knows a woman's heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.

I kept telling them I didn't know anything about it, but half of them seemed to think that I was lying, and the other half that I was hinting at something.

You did not rise in the ships just through your ability to Weave the Winds or predict the weather or fix a position. You needed to read the intent that lay between the words of your orders, to interpret small gestures and facial expressions; you had to notice who deferred to whom, even subtly, for courage and ability alone took you only so high.

Truth has more shadings than you might think, and distance often distorts truth into something very different from the facts.

Men always say they didn't mean it that way. You would think they spoke a different language.

In his opinion, prophecy set the conditions that had to be met for a thing to happen; only, meeting them did not mean the thing would happen, just that it could.

Each message had thickened the fog more than cleared it.

Canluum, Lan paid as little attention to the stares he

Let a woman know you were nervous, and she put her own construction on it, and sympathy went right out the window.

me, and went away." "They looked at you," Mat said with a grin, "like you

Will it be the idea of absence of any number-or the idea of a number for such absence? Is it to be the mark of the empty, or the empty mark?