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Observational Quotes (page 7)

John Cheever quote: "His life was not confined and the delight he took in this..."
His life was not confined and the delight he took in this observation could not be explained by its suggestion of escape. John Cheever
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "You have been a poor observer of life if you have not also..."
You have been a poor observer of life if you have not also seen the handthat, ever so gently? kills. Friedrich Nietzsche
She won't win," Eric said. He sounded confident, passionate--everything I might have hoped would be reassuring."You're sure?" I asked."Yes, my lover. I'm sure."But you're not here," I observed, and I hung up very gently. He didn't call back. Charlaine Harris
Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. "That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed. Joseph Heller
Katharine Graham quote: "The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around..."
The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it. Katharine Graham
Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mimosa did lose its first freshness too quickly to be worth buying and I must not allow myself to have feelings, but must only observe the effects of other people's. Barbara Pym
I had also, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever published fact, a new observation of thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones. Charles Darwin
He was directly invited to join their party, but he declined it, observing that he could imagine but two motives for their choosing to walk up and down the room together, with either of which motives his joining them would interfere. "What could he mean? She was dying to know what could be his meaning?"--and asked Elizabeth whether she could at all understand him? "Not at all," was her answer; "but depend upon it, he means to be severe on us, and our surest way of disappointing him will be to... Jane Austen
I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it. (...) This is a truth we dare not acknowledge these days - because sameness is our religion and heretics are no more welcome now than they ever were - but I’m going to acknowledge it, because I’ve always felt that humility before the facts is the only thing that keeps a rational man together. Be humble in the face of facts, and proud in the face of opinions, as George Bernard Shaw once said.... Hugh Laurie
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought. George Eliot
John Calvin quote: "Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and..."
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves. John Calvin
The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation. William McKinley
Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code -- a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people--or, rather, there aren't any right people. B. F. Skinner

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