Quotes About Awareness

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.

The Weinstein story and the way it has shaken the roots of Hollywood has made apparent the fact that, across the world, there is a pressing need to recognize and correct the circumstances women subsist in, in order to move forward.

High blood pressure is a major health crisis in the black community.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

There was no pressure or blackmail from the U.S. I had no idea the military aid was held up.

As a goalkeeper, I'm well aware that any mistake can be magnified by the fans. But it's true that here at Manchester United, there's added pressure.

My parents never pressured us. I didn't even know how good my mom and dad were until someone told us.

Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under.

Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

As a gay man, there are certain places that I avoid. When I go to China, I lie and pretend I'm not married, which is really sad - I leave my ring at home. But I'm not willing to risk my safety in a country that could cause me no end of problems or where it's illegal to be gay. I'm very aware of the places I can travel to safely and where I cannot.

To try and to pretend that there's no difference between where we come from is so dumb.

A lot of communities pretend they don't have homeless and just ignore them or try to make them go away.

It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death doesn't exist, that you can buy immortality; just buy these products, and you'll be forever young and happy.

In drama you can either pretend everything is OK, or you can show the world as it really is in the hope that it gets better.

I don't hate anyone. I just see the evil some pretend doesn't exist.

Every decent person feels the pain of the African-American community, but I also don't want to pretend like I know the exact distinct pain.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

I don't pretend I know everything.

Some adults would rather pretend that bad things don't exist than to talk about them.

I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

We, in America and Great Britain, have never had to live with evil and ignore it, or pretend it wasn't happening, as people did all over Europe, and indeed, even in Germany herself.

I, as a man, don't even pretend to know what a woman goes through during pregnancy.