Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Rice

And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.

Anne Rice

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Anne Rice

When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.

Anna Deavere Smith

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

Anna Deavere Smith

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

Anna Deavere Smith

Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.

Anna Deavere Smith

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

Anita Borg

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

Anita Hill

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.

Anita Hill

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Anita Diament

There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute

Anita Diament

The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

Anita Brookner

The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.

Anita Brookner

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

Andrew Solomon

It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.

Andrew Solomon

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

Andrew Solomon

The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.

Andrew Lo

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.

Andrew Lincoln

I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones. I remember when I was a kid, I watched an interview with Dennis Hopper talking about Jimmy Dean on the set of Rebel Without A Cause. Jimmy said to him, "If you've got to cry in a scene, you've got to cry. Make it real." And that's all that I believe in.

Andrew Lansley

In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

Andre Malraux

Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.

Andre Malraux

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

Andre Maurois

Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.

Andre Maurois

We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.

Amelie Nothomb

It’s true that someone will always say that good and evil don’t exist: that is a person who has never had any dealings with real evil. Good is far less convincing than evil, but it’s because their chemical structures are different. Like gold, good is never found in a pure state in nature: it therefore doesn’t seem impressive. It has the unfortunate tendency not to act; it prefers, passively, to be seen.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

Andy Kindler

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

Andy Murray

Since there are a wide range of entrepreneurs fundraising at any given time, I looked at each opportunity as it has arisen and on its own merits. Then I've sat down with my financial advisers, we've looked at the numbers and gone for the businesses I believe have real potential.

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.

Andrew Cuomo

Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.

Andrew Cuomo

I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.

Andrew Cuomo

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.