Quotes About Awareness

Men, if you're traveling with your wife or girlfriend and she mentions that it's time to start looking for a restaurant, you need to sit up and take notice. This means her blood sugar level has dropped and, for you, it ought to be a red alert with flashing lights and sirens. Get that woman fed!

The electrons not only know whether or not both holes are open, they know whether or not we are watching them, and they adjust their behaviour accordingly.

Nothing is real unless we look at it, and it ceases to be real as soon as we stop looking.

if you don't think about death, you don't appreciate life.

Did you know that some of the counties in the coalfields have the highest rates of cancer in the country?

We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed.

He stared at the cheap linoleum between his shoes and admitted to himself that once again he had fallen into the trap that often snared so many of the educated and upper-class locals when they convinced themselves that the rest of the population was stupid and ignorant. Cranwell was smarter than most lawyers in town, and infinitely more prepared.

You spend more on fancy coffee than I do on meals. Why can't you help the poor, the sick, the homeless?

I had never seen a woman's breasts before, and I doubted if any seven-year-old boy in Craighead County had. Maybe some kid had stumbled upon his mother, but I was certain no boy my age had never had this view.

If you smoke cigarettes, take the advice of a dead man and stop immediately.

no one in Brady had seemed even remotely aware that the world was teetering on the brink of a catastrophic depression. Perhaps the mountains kept the place isolated and secure. Or perhaps life there had been depressed for so long another crash wouldn't matter.

We never forget that we were twenty-four hours late at 9/11. This is our world. This is the pressure we're under. Sorry for the speech.

Don't waste a second but never hurry.

Her thoughts could not escape the present.

A person who commits suicide is not thinking rationally

Wait, how did she know I would be with you?" "It's a small town, Samantha.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other

took out a notepad, and seemed ready to pounce on everything laid on the table. Half an hour later

L'età ci arriva di soppiatto alle spalle, ma in un cane arriva con una rapidità mozzafiato, che induce a riflettere.

could almost taste the finiteness of life and thus its preciousness. We take it for granted, but it is fragile, precarious, uncertain, able to cease at any instant without notice. I was reminded of what should be obvious but too often is not, that each day, each hour and minute, is worth cherishing.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

But Catherine was not to be underestimated. Already she perceived Mary to be a threat

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." Our generation has mastered the art of looking the other way when evil presents its face of terror and death.

I came to realise that my life, which had seemed so unmistakably real, consisted only of memories