Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carter G. Woodson

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

Caroline B. Cooney

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

Carole King

Only love is real...everything else is illusion

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

Camille Paglia

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

Camille Paglia

In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

Camille Paglia

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

Camille Paglia

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

Camille Paglia

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

Caitlin Moran

We need to reclaim the word feminism. We need to reclaim the word feminism real bad.

C. J. Cherryh

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

C. Northcote Parkinson

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

Bryan Magee

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

Bryan Magee

To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, the next most likely scenario, it seems to me, is something along the lines indicated by Schopenhauer. But neither of these is what I most want. What I want to be true is that I have an individual, innermost self, a soul, which is the real me and which survives my death. That too could be true. But alas, I do not believe it.

Bryan Davis

Fantasy stories open our eyes to an unseen world and train our minds to see beyond the visible. In the New Testament context, this is where our real battles are fought. Good fantasy will reveal the hidden powers of evil that threaten the hero's life and upset his journey. Good fantasy focuses on how a hero finds victory when he learns that he can't win by himself, so he submits to the higher power in faith and obedience.

Bryan Cupito

We're 5-3, that's what we are. We're 5-3 with three games left. Maybe it doesn't feel like it, but we've got to face reality. We're 5-3, and 8-3 looks a lot better than 5-6 or 6-5. We can make something of our season.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words

Cathy Freeman

My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.

Chris Chocola

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Chris Coons

In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I dont think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.

Chris Colfer

The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.

Chris Christie

You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

Chris Christie

You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.

Chris Bauer

In my experience, it tends to be a real reflection of someone's intelligence, confidence and sensitivity when they can just be real.

Chris Bosh

I'm real conscious about money still. That's how I came up and you can't shake that.

The challenge will be to get the big corporate customers giving them their business, but it might be difficult in reality.