Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.

Carlos Castaneda

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

Carlos Castaneda

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

Carlos Castaneda

The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

Carlos Castaneda

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

Carlos Castaneda

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

Carl Bernstein

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies

C. S. Lewis

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

C. S. Lewis

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

David Selby

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

Cameron Russell

Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

Keep in mind that it is very important to stay moving and to get exercise - positive feelings about our appearance develop once we start taking control of our health.

Luke Pasqualino

I like a girl that takes pride in her appearance - looks are important to me, but it's also important she gets on with my friends and family. If my parents don't like a girl, then she's instantly a no-go.

E. B. White

The other players did not testify before this committee, ... We are asking for these results in the context of Palmeiro's appearance before the Government Reform Committee.

Marisa Miller

I'm definitely aware that the physical appearance is a very temporary gift. I'm very thankful for the opportunities that I've been able to experience, but I keep it all in check and don't let it consume me.

Juvenal

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

Juvenal

Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]

James E. Faust

I believe that the appearance of God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in 1820 to Joseph Smith unlocked the heavens not only to the great spiritual knowledge revealed in this dispensation but also to secular knowledge.

Dennis Potter

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

Benjamin Franklin

Men take more pains to mask than to mend.

Dr. Prettyman

Where else can you get a steel sword, put on a mask and then try and kill somebody. And it's all perfectly sanctioned.

Mark Dixon

We don't have a pile of masks sitting off to one side in anticipation of a pandemic.

Kelly Stinnett

I was always scared by not having a mask on. I feel more comfortable that way.

Joanna Scott

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

Kelly Ioane

We have a lot of people sick right now and others getting sick. Keri is playing with a mask and getting sick on top of that.

Alexander Herzen

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

Jewish Proverb

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.