Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Saramago

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

Jorge Garcia

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

Jorge Luis Borges

Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

Jorge Luis Borges

Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.

Jorge Luis Borges

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality favors symmetry.

Jones Very

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

Joni Mitchell

A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.

Joni Mitchell

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

Jonathan Toews

You become what you think about and focus on the most. See yourself attracting the things you want to accomplish. Thoughts and desires in your mind can become a reality.

Kevin Smith

This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It's a time to scream to the clouds that we're here and we've got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?

Kathy Reichs

Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.

Kurt Bills

The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.

Kurt Cobain

People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.

Kurt Cobain

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Khaled Hosseini

There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

Narendra Modi

Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election.

Narendra Modi

I have a vision of a Modern India. I have embarked on a huge mission to convert that vision into reality. My mantra is Development.

Napoleon Hill

I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality, therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person.

Napoleon Hill

Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

Napoleon Hill

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

Napoleon Hill

The dominating thoughts of my mind... will transform themselves into physical reality

Lois McMaster Bujold

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

Lynda Barry

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

Lucy Walker

I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.

Ludwig Feuerbach

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

Louis Aragon

As [John Heartfield] was playing with the fire of appearance, reality took fire around him... The scraps of photographs that he formerly manoeuvred for the pleasure of stupification, under his fingers began to signify.

Louis D. Brandeis

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.