Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anita Brookner

The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.

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 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 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.

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

Andrew Cuomo

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

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.

Ambrose Bierce

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.

Ambrose Bierce

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Anthony Hopkins

Living with reality is a very good trick. It gives you tremendous freedom and it changes the structure of molecules of your soul by living through reality because you don't expect anything anymore, which is a weird paradox.

Anthony Hopkins

There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.

Anthony Hopkins

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

Amy Waldman

Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.

Amy Waldman

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

Amanda Burton

I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.