Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.
When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are found, he or she is driven to say, I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and heart into prayer. Whatever else I do, I must pray.
There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.
Shelley was an idol of mine -- and many -- an extraordinary woman with powerful charisma, enormous talent and a keen, perceptive mind.
I miss my grandmother every day. I miss her vitality, her interest in the lives of others, her courage and determination, her perceptive wisdom, her calm in the face of all difficulties, her steadfast belief in the British people and above all her unstoppable sense of mischievous humour.
Women are increasingly perceptive about the way media images are manipulated
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
Horses are very sensitive and perceptive. You don't have to be physical with them.
We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.
I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find a funny, wry, perceptive contemporary observer to whom the subject matter seems almost as different and alien, and requiring as much struggling to understand, as it did to me.
To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry. . . and he's a mass murderer.
If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.
I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part.
Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone mainstream.
