Perceived Quotes

493 quotes by 436 authors

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable. — Ivan Illich
It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl. — Alison Bechdel
The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and… — Barbara Tuchman
We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a… — Rene Descartes
Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill. — Daniel Pipes
The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary. — Lucas Papademos
Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink. — Chance the Rapper
The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is that… — John Walford
Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what is… — Gregory of Nyssa
In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in… — John Walford
A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different. — Rita Levi-Montalcini
Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K.… — Louise Mensch
The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that. — Tom Ford
I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key.… — David Cronenberg
Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim. — Susie Orbach
The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan. — Toby Young
My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a… — Kurt Bills
MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any… — Bob Barr
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and… — Paul Berg

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