Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's not realistic that any superintendent could turn around some of these systems within two years.

Eric Williams

You take it for granted, ... When it's taken away from you, you realize that just being here is a blessing.

You never realize how important Kathryn is to the team until something like this happens. If she was back there, I don't think we would've made those mistakes.

Alexis Herman

This is fundamentally a day about paychecks and reality checks, ... Where's my 26 cents?

Sam Harris

Science has long been in the values business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best effort to value priinciples of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.

Sam Harris

You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.

S. I. Hayakawa

In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.

S. I. Hayakawa

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.

S. E. Hinton

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.

S. E. Hinton

We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.

S. E. Hinton

Dally was so real he scared me.

S. E. Hinton

Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.

S. E. Hinton

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

Russell Peters

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

Russell Peters

I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.

Russell Peters

On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you. I think they probably sound like us when they're in the house. It's how they keep people away from them.

Russell M. Nelson

Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.

Russell M. Nelson

It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access to help is just as real as when David battled his Goliath. see 1 Samuel 17.

Russell Simmons

You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.

Ronald Fisher

Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.

Ronald Reagan

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

Ronald Reagan

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

Ronald Reagan

We must remove government's smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We do these things to set loose again the energy and the ingenuity of the American people. We do these things to reinvigorate those social and economic institutions which serve as a buffer and a bridge between the individual and the state - and which remain the real source of our progress as a people.

Ronald Reagan

I doubt evolution is real.

Ronald Reagan

The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete and free mankind from the prison of nuclear terror. America met one historic challenge and went to the Moon. Now America must meet another: to make our strategic defense real for all the citizens of planet Earth.

Romano Prodi

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

Romany Malco

I like to be challenged and stay true to my archetype. That's something I don't admit of being like in real life and I don't have to be. I always try to understand what would lead an individual to being that way, to being oblivious to the fact that he's somewhat insensitive and scared of commitment, and that psychological journey, and what traumas may have occurred in this person's childhood to bring him to that point.

Romain Rolland

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.

Ron Paul

No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against a bill except for two: that it's not moral or that it's not Constitutional.

Ron Paul

It is incumbent on a great nation to remain confident, if it wishes to remain free. We need not be ignorant to real threats to our safety, against which we must remain vigilant. We need only to banish to the ash heap of history the notion that we ought to be ruled by our fears and those who use them to enhance their own power.

Ron Paul

One thing is certain: those who worked and voted for less government, the very foot soldiers in the conservative revolution, have been deceived. Today, the ideal of limited government has been abandoned by the GOP, and real conservatives find their views no longer matter.

Ron Paul

Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.