Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dogen

What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

Domhnall Gleeson

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

Frank Whittle

I had always realized it was desirable to gear down the jet.

First I thought it was stolen. Then I realized it was stolen, but it was just stolen by the tow truck company,

Sarah Polley

But I've realized that I've stuck to a very specific kind of film and a very specific style of acting, and I would like to shake things up for myself.

Douglas Adams

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

John Thorne

When I realized what was going on, I wanted to give. If you've got things that make sense to give, then we should do it.

When I first started playing, it was fun. It's still fun, but at the professional level, I have to look at whether or not I'm getting it done. The reality is if you're not, you can get fired.

Dorothy McGuire

When I first read the script, I realized that Katie would have to be played as a rather down-to-earth person.

Ludwig von Mises

The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

Ludwig von Mises

Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things.

Ludwig von Mises

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints

Ludwig von Mises

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

Ludwig von Mises

Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and that consequently the prices of all commodities will not cease to rise, everybody becomes eager to buy as much as possible and restrict his cash holdings to minimum size... If the credit expansion is not stopped in time, the boom turns to crack-up boom: the flight into real values begins, and the whole monetary system founders.

Ludwig von Mises

The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.

Ludwig von Mises

The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression.

Maira Kalman

who never told me to do anything realistic and who never told me to stop daydreaming.

You can get a reality show about anything,

Elton Brand

We wanted to go undefeated, but it's not realistic to win every game,

Robert Kiyosaki

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

Petrarch

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

Maurice Maeterlinck

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

Marya Hornbacher

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

Scott Hall

We have to realize that in the MAC, we have to come to play every day, ... We didn't show up to play today.

James A. Baldwin

Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

David Foster Wallace

The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: "This is water." "This is water." It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.

David Foster Wallace

If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.

We will all soon realize that we are a society of spirit

Melissa McCarthy

I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don't have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless.

Ruth Ozeki

I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.

E. F. Schumacher

Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.