Quotes About Awareness

Hold onto your dicks." "We don't all have dicks, dickhead," Kasyanov muttered.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.' – Upton Sinclair, American writer

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you're afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

Peace never bragged. If you didn't look for it, it wasn't there.

He thought about the difference between good times and bad times, and how funny it was that he could not state the difference, only feel it.

Proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life.

Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral.

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you're afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends.

Though it's odd, you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. You recognize what's valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what's best in yourself and in the world, all that might be lost.

you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.

The rock- it's talking. And the fog, too, and the grass and the goddamn mongooses. Everything talks. The trees talk politics, the monkeys talk religion. The whole country. Vietnam. The place talks. It talks. Understand? Nam- it truly talks.

All right,' I said, 'what's the moral?' 'Forget it.' 'No, go ahead.' For a long while he was quiet, looking away, and the silence kept stretching out until it was almost embarrassing. Then he shrugged and gave ma a stare that lasted all day. 'Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral.

Though it's odd, you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. You recognize what's most valuable.

Though it's odd, you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. You recognize what's valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what's best in yourself and in the world, all that might be lost.

There is a kind of largeness to it, a kind of godliness. Though it's odd, you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. You recognize what's valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what's best in yourself and in the world, all that might be lost. At

I heard water evaporating. I heard the tick of my own biology.

knowledge is better than wonder

Tom said nothing, uneasily aware that there might be something in what Simon said, after all.

Shit, he said as a great, green glut of water poured up at our feet. I wonder what the ordinary people are doin today.

Women aren't so keen to have them anymore, not where I come from, anyway. They've got other fish to fry, which is fair enough. But they don't realise, sometimes, what they're missing, or what they're withholding, you know? The power they have.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.