Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sting

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

It was good to get a few days off after the number of games we had. Now it's back to reality.

Steve Case

In less than a year Revolution has gone from being a concept to a reality, with three rapidly growing sector companies, overseeing a dozen acquired firms that collectively employ more than 2,500 people. But we're just scratching the surface in terms of the potential to build Revolution into a new kind of company that gives consumers more choice, control and convenience in the important aspects of their lives.

Steve Case

Bill sees and understands the possibilities of a connected world and has the expertise and the experience to help make it a reality, ... As more and more consumers want to take their connectivity with them beyond the desktop, Bill's vision will be critical in charting the company's future course and delivering on the promise of AOL Anywhere.

Steve Coogan

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

Stephen Fry

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

Sri Chinmoy

Our goal is to go from bright to brighter to brightest, from high to higher to highest. And even in the highest, there is no end to our progress, for God Himself is inside each of us and God at every moment is transcending His own Reality.

Sri Chinmoy

Hope is not an idle term. Hope is the reality that can and does reveal itself to us at God's choice hour. To hope is to know the secret of achievement.

Sri Chinmoy

Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.

Sri Chinmoy

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.

Roger Penrose

It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical reality, according to quantum mechanics. The state-vector of a system is, indeed, not measurable , in the sense that one cannot ascertain, by experiments performed on the system, precisely (up to proportionality) what the state is; but the state-vector does seem to be (again up to proportionality) a completely objective property of the system, being completely characterized by the results it must give to experiments that one might perform.

Roger Penrose

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

Roger Tory Peterson

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

Rupert Sanders

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

Rupert Sheldrake

The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in.

Rush Limbaugh

Whatever the reality is the perception is that Marco Rubio went to Washington and threw in with the, quote/unquote, "establishment". He cannot - he cannot recover from that. Has not been able to recover from that.

Vincent Bugliosi

The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases. And if they do not know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs who handle criminal cases. It's very incestuous.

Wayne Gretzky

Listen, first of all, my wife is my best friend. My love for her is deeper than anything. The reality is, I'm not involved, I wasn't involved and I'm not going to be involved. Am I concerned for both of them Sure there's concern from me. I'm more worried about them than me. I'm like you guys, I'm trying to figure it all out.

Wayne Dyer

...this moment... is the only physical reality you have.

Wayne Dyer

In reality, it's much easier not to smoke or eat chocolate than to do so. It's your mind that convinces you otherwise.

Wayne Dyer

In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.

Wayne Dyer

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

Wayne Dyer

My intentions create my reality.

Van Morrison

There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of a slow ballad type of thing on records, but when it came to performing, I felt I was limiting myself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What is life without incompatible realities?

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

Vladimir Putin

South Korea's investment in Russia has not been smooth, ... Korea had planned to carry out 126 investment projects worth 273 million, but in reality, only 91 projects worth 137 million are under way.

Vladimir Putin

One of the most important tasks is to broaden the energy supply ... Energy determines today international security and social as well as economic development in many respects. In reality the wellbeing of millions of people is directly dependent in energy security.

William Godwin

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.