78 Quotes About Impressions

The impression she left on others and her self-perception had been sewn into a whole so consummate that she could no longer tell how much of each day was defined by what was wished upon her and how much of it was what she really wanted.--Three Daughters of Eve.

Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.

Impressions form opinions, opinions distort the shape of truth.

I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke.

His face was neither handsome nor anything else. It just was.

You are impressed only by things you cannot have.

This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happiness from a pretty face, downright misery at the sight of a frump.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

If your hands were not clean, your good actions had grimmer and more relentless consequences than your sins.