Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Virilio

The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII,] the worst cases of collaboration weren't among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.

Paul Virilio

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

Karen Armstrong

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

Karen Armstrong

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.

Joyce Meyer

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Joyce Meyer

We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Joyce Meyer

God is the Source of real love, joy, peace, wisdom and everything else we all need to be the people He has created us to be.

Joyce Meyer

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.

Katharine McPhee

Entertainment is such a non-reality.

Katharine Hepburn

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

Kate McKinnon

I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.

Kate Klise

Remember that other people are as real as you.Other people's feelings are as real as yours.In fact, our feelings are what make us real.

Kate Mara

I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life.

Karen Joy Fowler

. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that would make the licking of toads illegal; Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson. You read these things and you think to yourself that realism may not be the best medium through which to express the real world.

Karen Kingsbury

My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.

Karen Kingsbury

Real love never fails.

Karen Kingsbury

Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often, and find your life in Christ. Don't hide away or be a follower. Be the wonderful unique person God made you to be, and know that your purpose will always be best when defined by your faith in him

Karen Russell

America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,... and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.

Karen Russell

I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.

Karen Russell

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

Justin Smiley

I knew it wasn't good when it happened. It's definitely scary. Every now and then, something brings you back to reality.

Justin Sane

The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.

Judy Chicago

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

George Lucas

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

George MacDonald

It needs brains to be a real fool.

George MacDonald

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

George MacDonald

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

George MacDonald

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

George MacDonald

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

George Jones

Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you. Don't let the 'business' change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.

Emmet Fox

It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.