Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Durrell

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

Lawrence Durrell

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.

Neil Peart

Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.

Neil Peart

There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.

Marco Rubio

You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they're hearing from their constituents and others.

Marcus Aurelius

He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

Marc Morial

We want the clear facts to be reported that we, according to the FBI, have a lower violent crime rate than Atlanta, or Houston, or Dallas, or Miami or San Antonio. To some extent, the perception that's been created is much greater than the reality.

Marc Maron

Comics seemed to have a handle on things. They could sort of disarm and get control over reality. I found it very comforting to laugh.

Marc Chagall

I am working in Paris . I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working.

Marc Chagall

All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Sidney Blumenthal

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

Sheryl WuDunn

Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

Sheila Nevins

I do less-fanciful reality. I celebrate the fat, the ugly, the women who can't get guys. I'm not trying to entertain you; I'm trying to make you passionate.

Neil Patrick Harris

Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane. And if some of our institutions seem not to fit the template of the times, why it is they and not the template, that seem to us disordered and strange.

Natalie Gulbis

I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.

Taylor Swift

It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.

Josh Schwartz

Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening.

Joseph Conrad

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

Joseph Conrad

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Joshua Ferris

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.

Joshua Harris

If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

Lawrence Wright

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Lars Leijonborg

Reality is our best friend - everything indicates that nuclear power should be used more.

Lance Secretan

We live under the illusion that organizations are 'them' when, in reality, they are 'us.' If we wish to work in evolved organizations, we must each be the first to start the journey.

Landon Donovan

If you let the reality of the business side get to you, it can turn you, and that's not good at all.

Kyle Cooper

Crude hasn't been responding to fundamentals all year. I think crude has been 8 to 10 overvalued for some time and has been responding to the fear of what could happen rather than the reality of what is happening.

Kwame Nkrumah

Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality... The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent.

John Keats

Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.