Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.

Alan Watts

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

Alan Watts

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Alan Watts

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

Alan Watts

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Alan Watts

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality...

Alan Watts

I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag , whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people , and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities.

Alan Watts

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

Alan Watts

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.

Britney Spears

Saying no is so heartbreaking.

Jane Addams

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

Annie Lennox

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

Ann Aguirre

No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad; sometimes it's a matter of indifference, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.

Henri Barbusse

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

Jack Kerouac

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

Louisa May Alcott

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.

Pema Chodron

The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.

Rachel McAdams

I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

George Gregan

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

Amos Oz

The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.

Mary J. Blige

When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.

Jeremy Bulloch

The 'Star Wars' series is a fairytale told in space,

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Tony Mowbray

If he is to last 90 minutes he must learn when to run, when to pass and when to hold the ball. It's been a fairytale two weeks for him and it is up to me to keep his feet on the ground.

George MacDonald

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

George MacDonald

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

Leo Tolstoy

… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.