Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Parr

More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

Arthur Miller

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Azim Premji

Success is achieved twice. Once in the mind and the second time in the real world.

Azar Nafisi

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

Benjamin Bratt

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.

Benjamin Bratt

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

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.

Alan Dershowitz

I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real debate is whether such torture should take place outside of our legal system or within it. The answer to this seems clear: If we are to have torture, it should be authorized by the law.

David Nicholls

Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.

Sandra Miller

We all remember the stunned look of the survivors, the anxiety as we learned of a second, third and fourth attack. The hours and the days after were a blur, filled with disbelief and despair.

Sharon Versyp

You have anxiety until you meet the person that is going to be a major impact in your life. I understand that. Once we meet and lay everything out and talk, things will be fine.

Colleen Hartman

We've just lived through at least 27 minutes of high anxiety. The nail-biting is finally over but my nails are actually gone.

Dalia Mogahed

As Donald Trump continues to dominate the 2016 field, the Republican establishment's low-grade anxiety is becoming an all-out panic

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Thomas Galvin

This will be as bad if not worse than what we saw in the first and fourth quarters of '97. We're looking for about 3 percent S&P 500 growth right now, and the consensus is looking for about 6 percent or better. So I think anxiety levels will remain in place for a couple of weeks until we get further through this confession period.

Augusten Burroughs

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

Eckhart Tolle

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

Eckhart Tolle

Become conscious of being conscious.

Eckhart Tolle

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

Deepak Chopra

Time is just quantified eternity.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

What the sunshine is to the flower, the Lord Jesus Christ is to my soul.

Adolf Loos

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Alexander MacLaren

Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.

Alexander Pope

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.