Perceived Quotes

493 quotes by 436 authors

she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. In tennis it's nothing, but… — Trenton Lee Stewart
We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new… — Louis Sachar
A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all. — William S. Burroughs
The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your… — Conan O'Brien
An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived. — Louis Sachar
It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "yet the powerful are often corrupt before they… — Frank Beddor
When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection. — Stephen Covey
It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different… — Lord Dunsany
Taking away a person's control of her own life - meaning her bank account - is one of the greatest infringements a democracy can impose,… — Steig Larsson
The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the… — Ann Voskamp
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. — Albert Einstein
He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret… — Bret Easton Ellis
sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter. — Tammara Webber
They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the air;… — Wendy Mass
Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived. — Mark Helprin

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