Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henepola Gunaratana

Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.

Hedrick Smith

It is absolutely stunning. You cannot read numbers that communicate what the reality is. That's part of what I'm trying to get across and that's partly why I use video.

Henry David Thoreau

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.

Patricia Hill Collins

I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other words, Black feminist thought encompasses theoretical interpretations of Black women's reality by those who live it.

Patricia Briggs

I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.

Pat Riley

It's a reality we have to understand. (O'Neal) has to be more diligent. We have to be more diligent protecting him. We need him in the game.

Pablo Neruda

Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal? When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on you?

Paddy Considine

I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.

Plato

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

Plato

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Plato

You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

Plato

'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.' 'Yes, blind is just about what they are'

Philip Slater

One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer.

Philip Slater

Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.

Paula Fox

Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.

Phil Hartman

It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.

Mary Ellen Mark

Reality is always extraordinary.

Mary Ellen Mark

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

It's surprising to a lot of people because ballerinas look so long, but it's more of a proportion thing. Their legs are long in proportion to their body but in reality they're very tiny.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Um, yeah, it's one of the things that you kind of have to accept at the very beginning, like I'm not going to try and be super [deep?] factor and no, I can only do it this way, because that's just not how this film's going to work. Like it's got to be sort of a mesh of reality and complete unreality and you kind of have to accept that and go with it.

Martin Parr

The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

Martin Schulz

The ESM, the European Stability Mechanism, is not funded by Germany alone. Twenty-seven percent of the bailout package comes from Germany. Italy and France together cover a total of 38 percent. That's reality. It makes no sense to say that everyone wants to get at Germany's money.

Martin Sheen

I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.

Martin Sheen

I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

Martin Sheen

The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

Lech Kaczynski

Nations are an historic reality in Europe. They all have different histories, and they joined the EU at very different times and under widely differing circumstances. I was mayor of Warsaw for three years and always in favor of Poland joining the EU. But I also experienced how we had to implement EU regulations that were completely inappropriate to our situation.

Lauryn Hill

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

Lauryn Hill

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Lauryn Hill

God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I'm led to.

Lauryn Hill

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

Lisa See

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

Lisa Kudrow

We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.

John Trudell

As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.