Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Roosevelt

Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women, and I am one of them, it is extraordinarily difficult to care about anything enough to cause disagreement or unpleasant feelings, but I have come to the conclusion that this must be done for a time until we can prove our strength and demand respect for our wishes. We cannot even be of real service in the coming campaign and speak as a united body of women unless we have the respect of men and show that when we express a wish, we are willing to stand by it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

Ehud Barak

Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

Ehud Barak

Israel is surrounded by a raging sea, parts of which are not willing to accept us as a partner with equal rights among the nations. The reality we live in presents us with profound challenges, the need to effectively use all of our resources, and the need to prepare for any development, near or far. The IDF will protect the security and the future of the state. The IDF will provide the response when the order is given.

Ehud Barak

We are talking about a major change in reality that has to come about, ... We are not idiots. If it turns out that this situation where there is no partner (in peace) remains the same, then we will know what to do.

Ehud Olmert

Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

Edvard Grieg

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

Eduard Shevardnadze

We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

Edvard Munch

I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could hear a scream. I painted that picture, painting the clouds like real blood. The colours screamed.

Edsger Dijkstra

In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and I am afraid not in Dutch alone - its usage is almost always a symptom of a violent anti-intellectualism.

Edsger Dijkstra

The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions.

Edsger Dijkstra

Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.

Eduardo Galeano

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

Eduardo Galeano

My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.

Edward Abbey

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

Edward Abbey

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

Edward Abbey

I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.

Edward Abbey

I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

Edward Abbey

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

Edward Abbey

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

Edward Abbey

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Edward Abbey

Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.

Eddie Redmayne

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.

Auberon Waugh

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

Aubrey Plaza

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

Atul Gawande

This is the reality of intensive care: at any point, we are as apt to harm as we are to heal.

Aristotle

Every realm of nature is marvelous.

Aristotle

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.