Quotes About Awareness

Wann immer du an jemandem etwas auszusetzen hast, sagte er, vergiss nicht, dass nicht alle auf dieser Welt einen so leichten Start hatten wie du.

A bad driver is only safe until she met another bad driver

The education of all beautiful women is the knowledge of men.

She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her….

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive. -Tom Buchanan, The Great Gatsby

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive. -Tom Buchanan

a man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

she felt that she had learned something, though exactly what it was she did not know.

It's up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other races will have control of things.

A dim background started to take shape behind him, but at her next remark it faded away.

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.

I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.

I was sitting on the roof, and she didn't see me. I sit on the roof a lot. People never think to look up.

I knew I wasn't the picture of health, but I didn't think I was headed for the last roundup.

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody.

Questa era Slagtown un sabato sera qualunque, e a un isolato da lì la Birmingham dei bianchi fingeva d'ignorarne l'esistenza.

The war was over, but it had taken its toll. More than 400,000 Americans had been killed and 1.7 million had been hurt in some way. And most people didn't know about the 39 WASPs who had been killed or that 16 Army nurses had died by enemy fire, and 67 had been taken prisoner, including Nurse Dottie Frakes, who was held in a Japanese concentration camp for more than three years.

Sometimes a woman in love doesn't see what's right in front of her eyes. Even a woman with a law degree.

Americans speak few languages, know little about foreign cultures, and remain unconvinced that they need to rectify this.

Listening is always preferable to talking. Let the other remove his veil, as my grandmother used to say. Give your response time to ripen.

You will have to pay for your choices much more than you realize.

Confucian axiom "If one's mind is elsewhere, one will look but not see, listen but not hear

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.