"He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose."
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"The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present."
"I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious."
"There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it."
"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves."
"This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word."
"I am conscious of eternal life."
"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none."
"The greatest fault is to be conscious of none."
"Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making."
"Reaction and non-action both create karma, but conscious action transcends karma."
"There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher than the worship of any dead symbols."
"The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness."
"Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering."
"Getting too much money too soon can be really bad. There's a balance to be kept - the right balance between new experience and a certain stability in one's life. I'm conscious of all these things in a way that, earlier on, I was only conscious of circumstantial stuff, like, money."
"I would agree on the aging thing. Because, at a certain point, once you start noticing it, it is your subject. And I know young that people, when they get to 30, say, "Oh, I'm so old." But actually, around 50, you do become conscious of it."
"I wouldn't like to say that I'm absolutely God conscious. It's like everybody else. We're battling with the forces that are pulling us upwards and downwards at the same time. But basically we all want love, that's what I feel."
"We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us."
"I'm conscious enough that how I'm singing is not my own accent."
"Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans."