Famous Quotes & Sayings

Azar Nafisi

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Jamie Drummond

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.

Carl Sandburg

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Arthur C. Clarke

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

Brian Cox

We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.

Bob Dylan

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.

Brian Reynolds

The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.

Billy Blanks

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

Anwar Sadat

I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.

William Shakespeare

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

Tom Waits

You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

Paulo Coelho

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.

Mark Twain

Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

Mark Twain

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

Merle Shain

Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.

Michael Chabon

Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat -- was, literally, talked into life.

Michael Korda

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

Brian Tracy

The only thing that you can never have too much of is love.

Rene Redzepi

I'm a bit of a glutton - I eat too much of all that is good to eat.

Vanilla Ice

Act smarter than you are and always know where your exit is in case you get into too much trouble.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

Betsey Johnson

I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.

H. Allen Smith

There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

Jean de La Fontaine

Un auteur ga" te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.