Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Stoppard

It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing is the next line.

Much of what is being characterized today as cost overruns were actually conscious decisions made by D.C. officials . . . to expand the scope of individual projects from what was originally contemplated.

William Galston

The poor don't need their consciousness raised as to what a good life looks like,

Jesse Jackson

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation's consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

It had not perhaps been raised to our consciousness by the reports we had received.

Marianne Williamson

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

Rachel Sklar

A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.

As we started lifting, he was still with us, but shortly thereafter he lost consciousness.

As my trapped co-workers lost consciousness one by one, the room grew still and I continued to sit and wait, unable to do much else.

After that, we kind of got our focus. We made a conscious effort to be a great defensive team.

Brian Sabean

It's reasonable to think he can play 120 games. Now, will we be in a position to have to rest him and be conscious that he's going to come in some days cranky and not be able to go? The next step is to get him in spring training and get him in a position to be able to do that. I think he wants that.

Jim Johnson

A person in this town has got to be especially conscious that they're around.

That's a great American film and a socially conscious classic.

Daniel H. Wilson

A robot-arm in a factory doesn't decide minute by minute whether to rivet or revolt - it just does the job is has literally been trained to do. It's if and when we build a conscious robot that we may have to worry.

Eknath Easwaran

Doing two or more things at the same time splits our consciousness in two or more ways.

Jon Anderson

You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.

Josiah Royce

For by such poor figures I may, in passing, symbolize that really rational relation of our personal experience to universal conscious experience.

For a guy at the community-college level, he has a higher consciousness when it comes to understanding the game.

Daniel Woodrell

For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.

The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.

James Nesbitt

I'm increasingly realising our consciousness and subconsciousness are extremely different, and our subconsciousness motivates us, but so far, I don't know what drove or motivates me.

Daphne Gottlieb

I'm entranced by the idea of reading the culture back to itself, because I'm conscious that we as people and also as a culture are myth-making machines. So I'm interested in a resistance to that: What we can bend, what we can break.

It was just briefly, but in that moment I could see. A moment engraved in your consciousness.

They would be pleased, flattered, thrilled. They were very conscious of making their mark forever.

Mel Stottlemyre

They worked real hard at that. Jorge Posada does a great job. It's been a two-way thing. (The pitchers) are very conscious of their running game. It doesn't mean they're not going to get stolen bases, but we've kept them from running wild.

Mel Stottlemyre

They worked real hard at that, ... Jorge Posada does a great job. It's been a two-way thing. (The pitchers) are very conscious of their running game. It doesn't mean they're not going to get stolen bases, but we've kept them from running wild.

There was a point in my life where ignorance ruled me. As I grew and learned, eventually my conscious called me. On that day I decided for myself to become a man, and shun the ignorance that I once embraced. Thank God for ones own conscious!

Simon Schama

It was a conscious decision by (Sir Robert) Walpole and others to replace religion with making money. Elections replaced battles, and the fights were over party politics.

Amanda Hearst

I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice.

Essence Carson

It works that way with a lot of things in life. Once you're held accountable for something, you put in a lot more and make a more conscious effort.

It was just as tough as last year. We just did a better job of limiting our mental errors. We had a couple late in the game last year, and all week we made a conscious effort to follow the game plan.

Bre Pettis

We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.

Brent Sexton

Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you're generating, whether it's at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.