Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

Eleanor Mondale

The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.

Eleanor Clift

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

Eleanor Catton

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

Elbert Hubbard

The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

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.