Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Sanders Peirce

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially unlike the reality, although it must be accepted as true to that reality. Its truth consists in the fact that it is impossible to correct it, and in the fact that it only professes to consider one aspect of the percept.

Charles Manson

We're not in Wonderland anymore Alice.

Charles Manson

My reality is my reality, and I stand within myself on my reality.

Charles Hodge

In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in his path, and which he must dispose of; and on the manner in which it is determined depends his theology, and of course his religion, so far as his theology is to him a truth and reality

Bob Schaffer

The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.

Bob Brown

The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.

Bob Brown

The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?

Bipasha Basu

For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.

Bill McKibben

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.

Kurt Vonnegut

I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".

George Orwell

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

William Shakespeare

Sometimes, less is more.

We're going to get some reality back in the market.

Bill Maher

The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.

Benjamin Hoff

Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.

Bob Marley

One and all have to face reality now.

Bill Watterson

Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.

Bill Watterson

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

Bob Iger

Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

Bill Griffith

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Betty Shabazz

Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

Betty Friedan

You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much

Bill Gates

Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're Making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.

Bill Gates

Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out beyond Internet search, but I think the expectations won't live up to reality.

Bill Gates

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Bob Seger

It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight, somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right.

You have to face reality, and coming off 4-12, you're not going to be the national draw you were previously. But for 13 years, we were a pretty good draw.

Che Guevara

It's not my fault if reality is Marxist

Charles Kuralt

The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.

Charles Krauthammer

In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

Ahmed Akkari

We have a problem with several media taking only a part of the reality and not the whole picture. Some media in the world are more critical towards what's happening than others. It depends on the journalist, it depends how much information they have about the case and which perspective they are asking you from. All of these things can play a role.

Ai Weiwei

To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling. It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.