Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Baruch Spinoza

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Azar Nafisi

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

Azar Nafisi

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.

Ayn Rand

You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today - and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Brian Tracy

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

Brian Bosworth

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.

Boyd Rice

Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any level of it's order; humanity preaches an all-prevasive equality and freely hands-out unearned "rights" in an attempt to make its doctrine a living reality. In short: humanity is Democratic, nature is Fascist.

Jane Hirshfield

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

Danish Proverb

A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.

Proverb Proverb

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Charles Churchill

Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.

Diana Wynne Jones

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie

Dean Koontz

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

Ben Jonson

Fortune, that favors fools.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it

Ty Votaw

So you combine the performance side of things with the personality and the appearance and the approachability, it's a pretty potent combination.

John Conyers

This does, sometimes to some people, begin to take on the appearance of a coup. We're talking about a polite, paper-exchanging, voting process in which we rip out the 42nd president of the United States.

Juvenal

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

Juvenal

Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]

Blaise Pascal

Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

Ed Peper

As if the Corvette Z06 needed help in looking fast, the intricate paintwork of the pace car gives it the appearance of tremendous speed. It is one of the most elaborate and stunning vehicle designs we've created.

Richard Walter

We figured since there was a festival downtown, we'd make an appearance.

Walt Byrd

There's some perception in our community that we invest more in our newer schools. Their appearance makes them look dated.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.