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.

Alan Dershowitz

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

Elbert Hubbard

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Anatole France

Custom alone regulates morals.

Stephen Fry

There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

Thomas B. Macaulay

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

Victor Hugo

Morality is truth in full bloom.

Stephen Young

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

Sigmund Freud

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

Ravi Zacharias

When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.

Dan Brown

Nothing in Christianity is original.

David Livingstone

I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere-provided it be forward.

T. S. Eliot

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

Soren Kierkegaard

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

Tom Robbins

Christianity... is an Eastern religion.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.