Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aga Khan IV

The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West... The two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.

Aeschines

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

Afrojack

People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.

Aesop

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

Aesop

It is useless attacking the insensible.

Aesop

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

In a crisis, give help first and then advice.

Aesop

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Aesop

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Alexander Ludwig

Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.

Alexander Payne

In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.

Alexander Payne

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That's the real goal.

Alexander McQueen

Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

Alexander McQueen

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Alexander Pope

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

Alexander Pope

Only music has the ability to take you to the edge of reality and allow you to peek in for a moment.

Alexa Von Tobel

My ultimate goal is to create operating systems for myself that allow me to think as little as possible about the silly decisions you can make all day long - like what to eat or where we should meet - so I can focus on making real decisions.

Alex Winter

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

Alex Haley

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.

Alex Haley

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.

Albert Reynolds

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.

Albert Schweitzer

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

Debi Thomas

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

Debi Mazar

With the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me.

Debby Ryan

I'm very practical and realistic.

Debby Ryan

A real, healthy relationship is about empowerment and love and that should be standard - but it isn't.

Debbie Ford

Asking “Am I choosing from my divinity or am I choosing from my humanity? “ opens the door for us to experience realms of reality that we may never have visited before.

E. P. Thompson

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

E. Stanley Jones

To live by worry is to live against reality

E. O. Wilson

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

E. O. Wilson

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

E. O. Wilson

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.