Quotes About Awareness

Isn't it good just to be a live on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.

There are some people, sez I, that can't hear anything because of the jingle in their pocket.

Have you ever noticed how many different silences there are, Gilbert? The silence of the woods... of the shore... of the meadows... of the nigh... of the summer afternoon. All different because all the undertones that thread them are different. I'm sure if I were totally blind and insensitive to heat and cold I could easily tell you where I am by the quality of the silence about me.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

Ming is the only person besides Brenda who sees Katherine for what she is—a vengeful martyr in a Kabuki mask of dedication. Ming is also the only person besides Brenda who knows how infrequently Dagou actually talks to Katherine—knows

As he grew accustomed to the dark, his mind seemed to stop functioning and he could no longer keep his eyes open. Was he still walking, or had he stopped? All he sensed was a wavelike motion in his head, like black ocean swells; the darkness attached itself to his mind, unsettled, flustered, confused

Wag the Dog became an international byword for fake wars staged to distract from domestic political problems. Without a doubt, it raised the level of cynicism, which is to say it raised the level of awareness that real events are directed and staged for their political impact.

Sin has corrupted not only what we do, but also how we think, what goals we set, and how we feel about ourselves and others. Merely changing what we do will not change who we are. The cure for the selfishness and fear that control so much of what we do cannot be reduced to shallow solutions; we need to learn how our minds deceive us.

You do you have to be curious about a lot; you have to read your newspapers. If you know too much... that's dangerous.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening. I never learned anything while I was talking.

A penis has never been something that you pick up and put down and put away idly without consideration.

There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.

The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.

If you're planning on dying today I hope you dig your grave first.

People he had known all his life were all around him, but they simply didn't see him.

Somewhere along the Rio Concho, he had stopped feeling that he lived in a world where ledgers mattered.

When Newt walked in the barn to get a rope, the Captain turned and handed him a holstered pistol and a gun belt. "Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it," he added, a little solemnly.

A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.

It only went to show what he already knew, which was that there were more dangers in life than even the sharpest training could anticipate.

don't care if they're horses or women or Indians or what. I learned long ago there's much to be said for dumbness.

If one stopped to think about it, it was depressing how little most men learned in their lifetimes. Pea Eye was a prime example. Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

sometimes the only way to call attention to bad construction was to set fire to the building.