Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Blanks

Today is a reality, tomorrow's a promise, and yesterday's history!

Anthony de Mello

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

Anthony de Mello

Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.

Alonzo Mourning

I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.

Anne Roiphe

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.

Anne Rice

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Anna Deavere Smith

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

Anita Hill

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.

Anita Brookner

The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Demetri Martin

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

Bernie Sanders

What the Des Moines Register said - you know, there were coin - I think there were half a dozen coin flips - a fairly chaotic type situation. At the end of the day, no matter how it's recounted, it will break roughly even. I love and respect the caucus process in Iowa. See, and I don't have to say it, because they voted already.

Dale Evans

I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

Dale Carnegie

When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.

Clark Moustakas

When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Martin Schulz

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

Martin Seligman

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

Laini Taylor

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.

Laini Taylor

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

Lisa McMann

I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me.

Lisa Kleypas

And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.

Johnny Cash

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read

John Sununu

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

John T. Flynn

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.