Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Godwin

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

William Godwin

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

William Golding

Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the moment is not the English spoken in England or in America or even in Canada or Australia or New Zealand. The real English is the English which is a second language, so that it's rather like Latin in the days of the Roman Empire when people had their own languages, but had Latin in order to communicate.

William Goldman

I guess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time. In terms of real emotions, it's worse than you think, but not by the clock.

William Ames

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

William Barclay

It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be coaxed out of people, and that often they will not give at all unless they get something for their money in the way of entertainment or of goods. Giving which is real giving has a certain recklessness in it.

William Arthur Ward

Real optimism is exposed to the worst but expects the best.

William Arthur Ward

Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.

William Arthur Ward

Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.

William Arthur Ward

Real and lasting generosity requires that a person do more than make up his mind to give. He must also make up his heart.

William Arthur Ward

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.

William Arthur Ward

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile.

William Arthur Ward

Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive.

Wilferd Peterson

You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time.

Wayne Allard

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

Washington Allston

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Warren Zevon

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

Warren Zevon

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

Stephenie Meyer

All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.

Stephen Bayley

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

Stephen Baldwin

When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't.

Stephen Chbosky

It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real.

Stephen Colbert

With Late Night Show I can begin the search for the real Stephen Colbert.I just hope I don't find him on Ashley Madison.

Stephen Colbert

We are the shadow cast by real people. And that shadow changes shape as the news cycle changes shape, so you always have fresh dirt to dig in.

Stephen Colbert

I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Stephen Colbert

I've long been against illegal aliens, partly because they distract us from an even bigger threat: real aliens.

Stephen Colbert

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.

Stephen Colbert

I have always been a fan of reality by majority vote

Stephen Colbert

As we all know, reality has a liberal bias.

Stephen Colbert

The most common thing that real reporters say to me is, "I wish I could say what you say." What I don't understand is, why can't they say what I say, even in their own way? Does that mean they want to be able to name certain bald contradictions or hypocrisies that politicians have?

Stephen Colbert

Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: world hunger is over because I just ate.

Stephen Colbert

It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.

Stella Benson

What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.