#observation

Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#love #marriage #observational-comedy #humor

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#observation

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#observation #humor

Prose Poems from my book SPAN OBSERVATION So, we may not be able to explain the world. Not exactly. But we can accept it, and love it. We can turn our faces to the light and examine the minutest details simply for the sake of it. We can live lives of joy and purpose. We are all part of one whole. Take comfort in this. Almost every one of us is capable of holding a cup to another’s lips without our hands shaking. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#comfort #cup #examine #hands #holding

Falling into true love, is not taking a rope to climb out ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#inspiration #life #love #observation #philosophy

Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities. ↗

— Brian Rathbone

#humanity #nature-of-man #observation #men

In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#actual #american #based #british #china

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer. ↗

— Billy West

#kind #like #observation #observer #power

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#conversations #cuts #most #observations #own

Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#determine #enforcement #human #human powers #individual