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

Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won’t always remain a secret. … How do we guard — or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against — our hearts?...

I kept returning to this new and bizarre question: is there anything that actually is as it seems? Is anything perceptually straightforward? Maybe that’s inherently impossible, because impressions are, by their very nature, cumulative –...

We had been assured by our elders that intelligence was a family trait. All my kin and forebears were people of substantial or remarkable intellect, thought somehow none of them had prospered in the world....

Adolphe wondered why Lulu hadn’t told them about this, and then realized she probably would when she thought they were old enough to understand it. He could see it wasn’t something one would want to...

It is a very strange thing to see so many images in the world around us… we don’t realise it, but we are all impressionable beings, able to pick up off of the images that...

I make my own judgements of people, mate. I don’t need to borrow yours.

What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.

People say I have created things. I have never created anything. I get impressions from the Universe at large and work them out, but I am only a plate on a record or a receiving...

What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.

We do both impressions. We attend many reenactments as Federal (soldiers). It’s just part of the hobby and required by our unit. Attending an event as a Yankee adds to the experience by allowing you...

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does.

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

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality — not at the same time as you’re bombing people, you can’t.

I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.

We’re Christians. We have to care what people think. The appearance of wrongdoing, remember? I’m not going to move in with you had have people think we’re living in sin. What sort of witness would...

Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.

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,...

Be positive in your thoughts, passionate in your words and purposeful in your actions. Clean thoughts, Cool words and Clear actions are the impressions that appeal to success.

Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer.

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you’ve trained them.

We seldom look like the way we look like when people we like are looking.

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.

It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years...

Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person.

Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss…. We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, because...

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words just so, plunking one here, then one there, gauging how to sound worthy...

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

It may not be fair that people make judgments so quickly, usually within a few seconds of observation, but it’s unrealistic to expect that they won’t. So, if you want to be judged in a...

We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before...

There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it’s always a desk. There’s always...

A person who doesn’t understand both sides of an issue can’t relate to the side he is trying to sway, so his words will bounce off of them without leaving any impression.