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To perceive is to suffer.

Aristotle

To perceive means to immobilize. We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Henri Bergson

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anouk Aimee

We perceive Toronto as the festival that has the widest brim. We try to fit as much under this umbrella as we can.

Noah Cowan

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own, ... You can't clear your own fields while you're counting the rocks on your neighbor's farm.

Cicero

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Gary Zukav

It's very hard for me to accept this, ... Nobody here could ever perceive this taking place -- to have a fetus taken out of someone's womb and then doing an Amber Alert to try to find a child.

Ben Espey

We need to know what kids are saying, we need to know what their needs are, how they perceive those needs. But we also need to know what do they see about their school that's working, what do they see that's not working?

Gary Griffiths

Mr. Chavez has fed off the people's rage, and it is dangerous to perceive him as a vindicator rather than as a president.

Andres Perez

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

Saint Patrick

It's a big adversary when we don't perceive open government.

George Ruhe

They respond very aggressively when they perceive a threat that could be meaningful.

Roger Mcnamee

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Roberto Rossellini

The benefit back to them does not exceed the risk they perceive in making that information available.

John Pescatore

It is possible to perceive your health as good in spite of what outsiders may objectively see as disability or disease. If you feel you are healthy and have a high quality of life, that is what is most important.

Dr. Truls Ostbye

As recently as two days ago, soldiers from Fort Campbell called ... to report they are being harassed and threatened because others perceive them to be gay.

Michelle Benecke

Banks' abilities to execute complex cross-border mergers has improved and the environment in which both the customer and the regulator would perceive them has improved.

Russell Collins

In my opinion, this decision is unconstitutional. The government has no business telling people how they should perceive evolution and religion.

Casey Luskin

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

Georges Jacques Danton

We believe it may be because parents who perceive their neighborhoods as unsafe do not allow their children to play outside as much, and when children do not play outside as much, they do not get as much exercise.

Dr. Julie Lumeng

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.

Jeremy Taylor

I think residents need to perceive the value of having a business community.

Harry Gray

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

William Plomer

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Marianne Williamson

So we're worried that potentially you could have product that has this high pathogen load and that somebody won't know it because they'll perceive it to be fresh.

Donna Rosenbaum

People perceive the campaign to be close, so that should stimulate people to vote. And the media environment is unbelievable, in terms of focusing on the campaign.

Herb Asher

You have to remember that what we perceive now as kitschy or campy was not the intention when these decorations were originally produced. They were produced to be cute. We may look at them now and go, 'Oh, my God, that's hideous.' But back then it was considered charming.

Travis Smith

It's difficult to perceive what would have been available to European companies. ... I think there has been too much excitement on that score.

Howard Wheeldon

Consumers have moved up to products that they perceive as being higher quality.

Gary Hemphill

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Mary Richards

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

John Masefield

That's a concern that we have, that people will perceive it as a risk to their confidentiality, and then decide not to seek testing.

Kelly Moore

I think that as long as the focus is on doing what we perceive the Lord wants us to do, the church will thrive. If we don't, it won't.

Bob James

You have to be careful (in accusing people of taking bribes), because sometimes what people perceive to be payola really isn't. The disc jock might just like what this artiste or label does, or get lots of request from the public.

Brian Schmidt

It's important that a message is sent to the players. They need to perceive that change is being made.

Doug Berry

I will not get involved in anything I perceive to be a conflict of interest to this organization.

John Roark

The examination of the bodies of animals has always been my delight; and I have thought that we might thence not only obtain an insight into the . . . mysteries of Nature, but there perceive a kind of image or reflex of the omnipotent Creator himself.

William Harvey

Young people will typically show up in larger numbers in national elections, when they perceive the stakes to be higher.

David Rebovich

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Francois Fenelon

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I only wish we had a hundred of them. They make terrific investments that have a flow-on effect in terms of how people perceive the health of the game.

Stephen Ferguson

The governor has been very consistent in supporting domestic partnership rights. We obviously disagree and are going to go our own course. We do not perceive it as a jab at our efforts.

Benjamin Lopez

I know from my time in government that there is never a good time to take an action that someone will perceive as a hostile act. You can always come with a reason why it is a bad time to do it.

Richard Bush

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

Jane Roberts

If he's trying to make noise, we might not be able to perceive that as of yet.

Dr. Larry Roberts

Most people perceive them to be the best.

Justin Roberts

The perception of bias isn't there, that's what I told Ken Tomlinson, ... The majority of Americans do not perceive a bias.

Pat Mitchell

In terms of nonverbal communication, by not seeing the full face - whether it's bangs in the eyes of a woman or a man, or a beard - there can be some who perceive the individual is hiding something.

Judith Rasband

Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

Francois de Fenelon

Unless you let someone know what action has been taken, the customer is never going to perceive a difference. You've got to close the loop. If the customer isn't aware of the fix, then the remedy doesn't exist.

Craig Cochran

As far as a Latin explosion, I'm sorry, I'm the only Latino who's going to say it, but there is no Latin explosion. I'm sorry. Four or five top box office people do not make it an explosion, and it's disgusting to me that people will perceive it that way.

Rosie Perez

We don't perceive any impact on our operations.

Joel Mills

Same old John. Reliable. A leader. A little better than you might think he is. A little more skill there than you might first perceive. We're fortunate to have him.

Larry Coyer

There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

Charles Fort

(People not of the Hispanic community) perceive it as being rude or not listening when really it's just a cultural difference.

Leslie James

The Australian dollar may struggle, simply because we perceive a further narrowing of interest-rate differentials.

John Rothfield

Everything reflects the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the demographics of the city. That impacted how many white candidates perceive their political fortunes.

Silas Lee

Doing a fabulous job on Rita doesn't undo the fact that people perceive the first few days of Katrina were mishandled.

Charles Cook

The candidate pool was exceptionally strong, which says good things about the way people around the country perceive the University of Maine and its athletic department.

David Townsend

She did not perceive he was dying. Certainly there was no plan to starve him to death.

Anil Kapoor

He had a big impact in terms of how I perceive myself and my job.

Liz Phair

IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions.

Ambrose Bierce

We had two very successful forays to [U.S. regulators], ... We perceive that the U.S. negotiating position has changed and that they are prepared to decouple the two issues.

Michael Bishop

It's darker than you first perceive it to be, ... The American film company comes in and rides roughshod over people, but so do the other characters.

Andy Gray

In the animal kingdom, it's a constant struggle. If you have an animal not happy with its position in the pack and it wants to move up in the food chain, it can perceive anybody who comes into that house as a threat.

Dennis Mccullough

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.

Cato the Elder

I think they (ITV) will probably do more different things and you will perceive that gap widening over the next few years.

Peter Fincham

I don't think his behavior changes that much, ... It's the way people perceive him that changes.

Matthew Macfadyen

Certainly all of our lives are unfinished, ... how they must learn to forgive what they perceive as wrong in their life, whether that wrong was committed by other people or by some form of cosmology.

Mark Spragg

He's very intuitive about human behavior, combined with a wonderful understanding of the scientific/fantasy perception - an understanding of what we can perceive beyond what we admit to. But he doesn't depart from the human being. That means you get to use everything you are and more as an actor.

Mary Mcdonnell

I perceive excessive hiding behind abortion precedents, unlike his boldness in other areas.

Richard Collier

Once the Fed signals its intentions or investors perceive that the end is near, stocks might rise strongly.

Ernie Ankrim

There was an old Man who said, `Hush! / I perceive a young bird in this bush!' / When they said, `Is it small?' / He replied, `Not at all!/ It is four times as big as the bush!'

Edward Lear