Quotes about Perception

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination.

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

Moneo is trapped. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Big breasts in a woman and hard loins in a man (that tightly muscular look to the buttocks)—these were naturally important in sexual matchings. But without the eyes, the rest of it could go for nothing. Eyes were essential. You could drown in the right kind of eyes, he had learned, sink right into them and be unaware of what was being done to you until penis was firmly clasped in vagina. He

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Because we cannot imagine a thing, that doesn't exclude it from reality.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.