“Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.” IfsPersonsEnoughFacesAirFiguresDegreesConsciousUglyShockingFlatteryAmendsInsensible Author:Bill Vaughan
“With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.” WorldMindPersonsHouseAirInspireDivineConsciousEternityImpulseVisibleFiniteConverses Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
“If we weren't so dirt-conscious, we would obtain adequate vitamin B12 from soil, air, water, and bacteria, but we meticulously wash and peel our vegetables now - and with good reason, as we can't be sure our soil is not contaminated with pesticides and herbicides.” IfsReasonWaterAirConsciousSoilVegetablesDirtAdequateVitaminsBacteriaPesticidesHerbicides Author:Sharon Gannon
“From the first time he'd met her, he'd sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other people's art and ideas.” PeopleFirstsArtStillsIdeasSelfArtistEasyQualityPiecesAirMetsConsciousFirst TimeContradictionShySelf ConsciousEasy To GetFew FriendsBrash Author:Charles de Lint
“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.” PeopleMadeMemoriesStruggleAirDespairAmbitionConsciousEveningHatedPassagesSoberGreedyGlamourFadedEphemeralIntoxicationIncessantIndescribableGlossKindliness Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
“With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.” PeopleFeelsSaidTwoThreeMoneyRelationshipAirSafeConsciousDirectInches Book:The House In Paris Source: The House In Paris