impressions

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

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

When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.

There__ no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it _ or they think you have.

Only someone who isn__ a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are _ or they think we are.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

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

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

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 certain manner, be sure that your look and demeanor give that impression.

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 that be?

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

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

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 most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete--and these are substances not easily impressed.

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.

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? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?