Quotes About Awareness

One knows, when all one's life one has walked in dangerous places, when the silence is that of ambush and when the silence is that of emptiness.

In order to rule, one must face reality.

And because death was a friend, the one man who was made to receive, like a tuning-fork, the whispering omens of fate did not recognize it, until too late.

Are we going to have a sensible discussion?' she said. 'Well, you are sensible,' Lymond said. 'And I am not unconscious, yet.

She looked,' said Alec Guthrie dryly, 'like a clever woman who was not unaware that five ill-dressed passers-by were displaying an unhealthy interest in her personal life.

His horse stumbled in the tussocky ground and made him realize, then, how thoughtlessly fast he was riding...how thoughtlessly fast he was thinking.

It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.

I took the liberty of ascertaining as much beforehand, my lord. Of course you did, Bunter. You always ascertain everything.

The brutal fact is that in this Christian country not one person in a hundred has the faintest notion what the Church teaches about God or man or society or the person of Jesus Christ.

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

The Duchess of Denver was pouring out coffee. This was one of her uncomfortable habits. Persons arriving late for breakfast were thereby made painfully aware of their sloth. She was a long-necked, long-backed woman, who disciplined her hair and her children. She

facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching.

I am at just that interesting age where i cannot keep out of things. I, too, must be in the know; I, too, must quote and sigh and nod wisely.

Black women's clubs worked to educate their less fortunate sisters about birth control as part of their racial uplift campaign.

If someone is determined to kill himself, nothing will stop him.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

When we take the perspective of others, we can empathize with them.

Did I do anything wrong today, he said, or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.