Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Bauer

In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

Chris Alexander

I really see the U.S. staggering under the burden of three blows. One is 9/11 and the threat of terrorism, which is still huge in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere. The second is the failed 2003 war in Iraq, which cost so much and ruined America's credibility in the eyes of so many. Obama has repaired it to some extent, but those scars are deep. And then, thirdly, banks failed, the whole real estate market had the carpet pulled out from under it.

Chogyam Trungpa

Luxury is experiencing reality

Chogyam Trungpa

The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not afraid or that, if someone hits you, you will hit him back. But we aren't talking about that street-fighter level of fearlessness. Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world.

Chinua Achebe

Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever.

Chinua Achebe

The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be important if we have the energy and the inclination to challenge it, to go out and engage with its peculiarities, with the things that we do not understand. The real danger is the tendency to retreat into the obvious, the tendency to be frightened by the richness of the world and to clutch what we always have understood.

Edward Gibbon

The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without fear, slow or rapid according to the exigencies of the moment; that in the deepest distress he was animated by real or apparent hope, but that he was modest and humble in the most prosperous fortune.

Edward Gibbon

The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the misfortune of a single day, if the fatal power of the imagination did not exaggerate the real measure of the calamity.

Edith Sitwell

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Eddie Murphy

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

Daymond John

Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.

David Weber

It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V launch been exciting! And then, there it was - late at night, sitting up, watching, and there was Neil Armstrong actually standing on the surface of the Moon.

David Ulevitch

The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.

David Henry Hwang

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

David Icke

We are consciousness whether we are in this reality or whether we are not in this reality; we are eternal consciousness.

David Icke

The thing is too that when you sell people a false reality and they take that to be the norm, when that false reality is light-years from what's really happening, that in itself is a tremendous defense mechanism because when you start talking about what is actually happening, it is so different from what people perceive to be happening. They just can't make that jump; it's too insane for them.

David Icke

The vast majority of people in any organization, even quite high up, have got no idea who the real masters are.

David Icke

A gift of truth is the gift of love.

David Hume

An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that no man, one should think, whose judgement is not corrupted, instead of being improved, by the sciences, would ever be able to admit of it.

David Hume

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

David Duchovny

The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

David Duchovny

I poop in the backyard... I wear disposable diapers.

David Brin

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

David Brin

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

Benedict Cumberbatch

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.

Beau Bridges

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.

Audrey Meadows

But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.

August Strindberg

There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

Audre Lorde

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

Arthur Rimbaud

Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.