Quotes About Awareness

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level, and surveys the long windings of destiny.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free;

But she had the awful gift of omnipresence, of exercising her influence from a distance; so that while the old family friends and visitors at Longlands said, It's wonderful, now tactful Blanche is - how she keeps out of the young people's way, every member of the household, from its master to the last boots and scullion and gardener's boy, knew that Her Grace's eyes was on them all.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

She would never again know what it was to feel herself alone. Everything seemed to have suddenly grown clear and simple.

He knew enough of his subject to know that he did not know enough to write about it....

Lily walked on unconscious of her surroundings. She was still treading the buoyant ether which emanates from the high moments of life.

The one woman knew but did not understand; the other, it seemed, understood without knowing.

Mas o silêncio terrível e o vazio pareciam simbolizar seu futuro – era como se a casa, a rua, o mundo estivessem todos vazios, e ela era a única pessoa consciente um universo sem vida.

His father's death, and the misfortunes following it, had put a premature end to Ethan's studies; but though they had not gone far enough to be of much practical use they had fed his fancy and made him aware of huge cloudy meanings behind the daily face of things.

In the thick of this meditation Archer suddenly felt himself looking at her with the startled gaze of a stranger

It's waiting for us: it seems to know.

No debes pensar que una chica sabe tan poco como imaginan sus padres. Una oye, una se da cuenta..., una tiene sus propios sentimientos e ideas.

It was a part of her discernment to be aware that life is the only real counsellor, that wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissues.

All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing

Evil prevails if good people say nothing. -

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) Irish orator, philosopher, & politician

All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

Intellect stood aside and informed him of this fact.

It's hard to evaluate the validity of a belief you're scarcely aware of—you just accept it as is.

We are so used to "doing" that it may seem like a chore just to "be.

Much like to the mole in Æsopes fable, that, being blynd her selfe, would in no wise be perswaded that any beast could see.

I was aware of the treacherous air vents above us, conducting the sounds we were making upstairs. Maybe dad was listening. Or maybe, just like Kevin, he was unaware of anything but the pleasure spurting up out of his body and into mine.