Nobody sees any one as he is, let alone an elderly lady sitting opposite a strange young man in a railway carriage. They see a whole--they see all sorts of things--they see themselves...
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Related What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. PROVERB What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I see it as an elderly lady, who mutters away to herself in a corner, ignored most of the time. GEORGE CAREY Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than w... LEWIS B. SMEDES Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick. JEFFREY FRY The wise sees knowledge and action as one; they see truly BHAGAVAD GITA I want to make sure that any young person or anyone, really, who is looking up to me - who sees a gl... SAMIRA WILEY They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them. JODI PICOULT Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. DOROTHY DAY But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's t... DAVID BLAINE A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting ... WILLIAM MCFEE Beware of your so called friends that always sees themselves first,before they ever see you. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or pic... DOLORES HUERTA Most people see themselves a certain way their entire lives. When they go through a massive change, ... , I GOT THIS: HOW I CHANGED MY WAYS AND LOST WHAT WEIGHED ME DOWN, 2012 When men see an attractive woman, they fantasize about sex. When women see an attractive man they fa... ALEXANDRA POTTER The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the... HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL They kind of gave it to us. Obviously, they cut their own throats. You won't see that too often, big... CASEY BLAKE It is just an illusion of freedom. We are, perhaps, as free as a railway carriage. VENUGOPAL GUPTA But they see themselves as women who are interested in men. They are not men interested in other men... DALE NEAMAN They sort of tend to see the vehicle as a solid whole, whereas if you're walking outside the car or ... JEFF GISH Don't assume people see things the ways you see them; they always see them as they see fit. PETER SAYSOMPHANE Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. EZRA POUND Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. EZRA POUND I used to walk my dogs down that road just about every evening, and I'd see her (Ms. Evans) sitting ... LINDA SHULTZ I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like. BRITTANY MURPHY Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the ... BEBE NEUWIRTH After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as the... OSCAR WILDE Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lo... DINAH SHERIDAN A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, ... CHARLES M. SCHWAB A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a ... CHARLES M. SCHWAB That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kin... WALTER MOSLEY I think in each individual, it's going to be a question of when they see the event as being over and... GERARD JACOBS O see what a wonder it is! The doings of the great are strange: they treat wealth as light as a stra... CHANAKYA Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. ANAIS NIN If a wicked rake doesn’t kiss a young lady when they’re alone in a moonlit rose garden, might it... ANNA BRADLEY It's become an embarrassment of a sort. [Having elections] was not something the UAE wanted to be be... ABDULKHALEQ ABDULLA Hopefully, they will see that teenagers do productive things. They are willing to give of themselves... FRANK CASTILLO Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ABRAHAM LINCOLN When a very pretty and popular girl looks in the mirror, all she sees is her face, her earrings and ... NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN This is in the very nature of things: obedience alone places a man in the position in which he can s... GEORGE MACDONALD They all have an unfailing respect for him and they see having wrestled for him as a rite of passage... KURT HOWELL Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there i... PETER S. BEAGLE One mistake is all they see. JOYCE RACHELLE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the ... ERIC HOFFER Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriag... JANE SMILEY A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest PAUL SIMON No one is a failure until that is the only definition of themselves that they are willing to see wit... SRIVIDYA SRINIVASAN If they show up and see a strange car in your driveway they may investigate [the matter] a little bi... TOM KRAEUTLER Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like... EAMONN WALKER We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin. ANAIS NIN What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ... RICHIE NORTON It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of... CAITLYN JENNER Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life... RALPH NADER More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Securi... MITCH MCCONNELL When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite. WILLIAM BLAKE We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ANAïS NIN We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ANAIS NIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... PIERCE BROWN You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. HERB COHEN You will never see things as they are; you will only see things as you are. SHANNON L. ALDER Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Nobody says 'a working man,' but they say, 'a working woman.' And there is still a s... IVANKA TRUMP The evangelical with his "minority complex" often forgets that he is part of a massive historical mo... ARTHUR F. HOLMES He was a collector of knives. They pulled him over to see what was in his luggage. They saw that he ... MOHAMMED BABAR People have to have leadership that they believe in and that they believe supports them. Who is goin... JAMIE JESSUP Somebody like Chavez sees China as the counterpart to the U.S.. They see it as a way to diversify th... CLAUDIO LOSER Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Some there are who presume so... THOMAS AQUINAS Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are wh... THOMAS AQUINAS You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. HARUKI MURAKAMI We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are. ANAIS NIN Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going ... LA INDIA I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are a... DEAN KOONTZ Others can't always define your true identity. They see what they 'want' to see but beyond your mess... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die.<... GUY GAVRIEL KAY You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person whe... ROY H. WILLIAMS Then people started to point fingers. They didn't say nobody wants to see bad movies. Instead, they ... NEIL MERON People don't see tattoo in good light. They mostly see it as a mark of irresponsibility. DOUGLAS YEBOAH That is what was special to me, ... to see them come together as a team. They worked and cheered and... JACK NICKLAUS As I get into my speech, they start to see those things, and it starts to close the gap, and they se... CHRIS HOLLYFIELD The world citizen is a small leaf on the giant tree of life. They do not see a difference between th... SUZY KASSEM An inventor is a man who looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants... ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL They see it as if they let it do it to one, it could happen to you the next time. CONNIE KELLIHER We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ANAIS NIN We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anais Nin ANAIS NIN “Love is more powerful then hate, people change but nobody wants to see to believe. Some people sh... MIKE GRIST I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thoug... NORMAN JEWISON I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG I can't see that happening. However spurious Bush's mandate was in 2004 - let alone 2000 - Harper is... DAVID MCDONALD Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. MARCUS AURELIUS A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY Sometimes what you see of a person Is only what they want you to see But if you disresp... ROBERT BLACK
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VIRGINIA WOOLF I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change. VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole worl... VIRGINIA WOOLF How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the sol... VIRGINIA WOOLF Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. VIRGINIA WOOLF What does the brain matter compared with the heart? VIRGINIA WOOLF Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read. VIRGINIA WOOLF Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private com... VIRGINIA WOOLF I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. VIRGINIA WOOLF I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual. VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of... VIRGINIA WOOLF The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. VIRGINIA WOOLF If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly an... VIRGINIA WOOLF Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. VIRGINIA WOOLF I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality o... VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. VIRGINIA WOOLF I am rooted, but I flow. VIRGINIA WOOLF When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? VIRGINIA WOOLF Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. VIRGINIA WOOLF The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge... VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always se... VIRGINIA WOOLF I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. VIRGINIA WOOLF The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is ... VIRGINIA WOOLF If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy... VIRGINIA WOOLF With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ... VIRGINIA WOOLF Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck betwee... VIRGINIA WOOLF Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing. VIRGINIA WOOLF One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtl... VIRGINIA WOOLF What I value is the naked contact of a mind. VIRGINIA WOOLF Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic ac... VIRGINIA WOOLF All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense ... VIRGINIA WOOLF To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last,... VIRGINIA WOOLF