Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Emily Levine

When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.

Emily Mortimer

I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in the whole of East London. She and I hung out a lot. She showed me what she did and I spent time with her. So, [she was] a lot of the inspiration for the way I dressed and sometimes the dialogue in those interview scenes where we're cross examining and questioning the youths and trying to get a confession out of them.

Emily Mortimer

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

Elvis Stojko

I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive.

Emanuel Swedenborg

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.

Elvis Presley

C'mon, let's get real, real gone.

Elvis Presley

In public, I like real conservative clothes, something that's not too flashy. But onstage, I like 'em as flashy as you can get 'em.

Elvis Presley

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

Elvis Presley

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Elvis Presley

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

Ellen Willis

Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.

Ellen Willis

The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate" votes of suburban, white, middle-class, affluent males. Even liberal voters and organizations tend on some tacit level to accept the idea that they are not the "real" Americans the Democrats must pursue.

Ellie Goulding

I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.

Ellie Goulding

Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like.

Ellen Hopkins

Faces ...I ...don't ...know ...the real ...me

Ellen Hopkins

Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.

Ellen Hopkins

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

Ellen Hopkins

Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.

Ellen Hopkins

Real love shouldn't be disposable.

Ellen Hopkins

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

Ellen Hopkins

you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD

Ellen Hopkins

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

Elizabeth Gillies

I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for everyone.

Elizabeth George

Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From the sins which so easily entangles us (Hebrews 12:1)? Then delight in yourself in the Lord, in His provision, in His Word. Faithfully feed on the things that possess true substance and real meaning. When you remember that "all Scripture is given by inspiration by God and is profitable" (2 Timothy 3:16) and partake of such divine substance, then you are fed, you are led and you are safe!

Elizabeth George

Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.

Elizabeth Gilbert

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

Elizabeth Gilbert

To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.