observations Quotes

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”

“You must learn . . . to see what you are looking at.”

“He reads much; He is a great observer; and he looks Quite through the deeds of men.”

“He reads much; He is a great observer; and he looks Quite through the deeds of men.”

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

“It takes careful observation, and education, and reflection, and communication with others, just to scratch the surface of your beliefs.”

“The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him.”

″Keep looking at her long enough. One day you might see someone you know.″

“Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren’t? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?”

“Estevan and I talked about everything you could think of. He asked me if the alligator was a national symbol of the United States, because you saw them everywhere on people’s shirts, just above the heart.”

“There was nothing, nothing, Gatlin loved better than a spectacle.”

“In a month no man had come up or down that silent creek.”

“As a youngster I was frightened of the dark—used to wake up sobbing in it, as if it were water and I were drowning—but you will observe that I have disciplined myself so thoroughly against that fear, that I much prefer a dark to a lit room”

“Empty as the man’s mind was of thoughts, he was keenly observant, and he noticed the changes in the creek, the curves and bends and timber jams, and always he sharply noted where he placed his feet.”

“I had been too good too many times. It could become a problem. But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn’t sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.”

“Maybe you’re just too pretty yourself to be able to see it elsewhere.”

“It struck me as odd that even though no one could have called her a beauty, Mr. Tanaka’s eyes were fixed on her like a rag on a hook.”

″ ‘Come on, Blackburn. I’m not as dumb as I look.’ He took another sip of his drink and focused back in on Nikki and Trace. ‘One minute I’m getting you a drink at Spring Fling and the next you’re on the dance-floor with Trace. Doesn’t take a genius to figure out why you both disappeared.’ ”

“Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.”

“Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.”

“Perhaps you may think me foolish, but until I am sure there is nothing in my present fancy, I am more determined than ever to go on with my observations.”

“Beyond the house was a large field for the children to play in, and beyond the field were woods that went on damn near forever.”

“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”

“I just love zese little windmills, she always thought.”

“A dinosaur held his nose as he looked around.”

“Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.”

“Everywhere was connected to everywhere else, Pismire had said.”

“The story is told from the point of views of Lincoln’s rambunctious two boys, Willie and Tad. Through their observations, readers learn about Lincoln, about the politics of the time, and about daily life and family life in the mid 19th century.”

“The Aristotelian tradition also held that one could work out all the laws that govern the universe by pure thought: it was not necessary to check by observation. So no one until Galileo bothered to see whether bodies of different weight did in fact fall at different speeds.”

“Observed from behind, however, you completely lose sight of the whiskers, and so fail to realize how immensely important they are.”

“Through clever sleuthing, guesswork, and observation, Hazel discovers that Mr. Petrusca can’t read.”

“The cudgel-master raised his whistle and the two dozen other children standing around the circle fell silent.”

“The telltale sound of Verline’s rustling skirts arrived well before her. When she saw Rossamünd stricken within the chalk ring, she gave a startled cry.”

“That buzzing- noise means something. You don’t get a buzzing-noise like that, just buzzing and buzzing, without its meaning something. If there’s a buzzing-noise, somebody’s making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you’re a bee.”

“Of course, the trouble with water is that one bit of it looks pretty much like the next bit. I don’t know if that had occurred to you.”

Were I an atheist,—a man devoid of conscience,—a wretch with coarse and brutal instincts,—I might have found peace, long ere now.

It was characteristic of Kitty that she always imagined everything in people in the most favorable light possible, especially so in those she did not know. And now as she made surmises as to who people were, what were their relations to one another, and what they were like, Kitty endowed them with the most marvelous and noble characters, and found confirmation of her idea in her observations.