Blithely Unaware Quotes & Sayings

Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend, and you know the consequences that follows. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. — Albert Einstein

All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect. — Maria Konnikova

Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of foreign models; and it is therefore the sort of composition in which they have never been excelled. — Thomas B. Macaulay

I grew up in Zimbabwe in Southern Africa, and I moved to London when I was 17. And I started commuting and, actually, to go to college. And I used to really enjoy that part of my journey where the - it was actually a Tube train, but it was over ground, and it went right past the backs of people's houses, and I could actually see right in. — Paula Hawkins

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable. — Edward Abbey

Sometimes you're only human and you learn. — Curtis Joseph

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it. — Henry David Thoreau

I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy. — Mike Rowe

You make me proud to spell my name woman ... you make me proud to be your friend ... — Oprah Winfrey

I wanted to say something comforting, something reassuring. But there were so many mistakes in my own past that I couldn't think of anything that wouldn't ring false. — Leigh Bardugo

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well. — Paul Goldberger

It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it. — Frederick Herzberg

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore. — Mark Ruffalo

The world loved man when he smiled. The world became afraid of him when he laughed. — Rabindranath Tagore