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.

Jane Addams

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

Britney Spears

Saying no is so heartbreaking.

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.

Rachel McAdams

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

Ilka Chase

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

Henri Barbusse

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

Jack Kerouac

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

Laura Esquivel

When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?

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.

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.

Amos Oz

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

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.

Laini Taylor

She tasted of fairytales

Michael Hudson

In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the banks rich. And it is a fairytale.

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.