#observe

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ↗

— Andre Breton

#above #always #amazed #attaches #been

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#amazed #long #mars #observer #probably

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#interpreting #observe #observing #possible #without

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#few #governed #laws #observed #state

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#mediocrity #observe #talk

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#every #forcing #him #life #long

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing. ↗

— Ang Lee

#four #like #lot #observe #pass

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#democracy #does #make #must #notion

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#africa #america #asia #ask #britain

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#am #away #bear #brings #children