Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peace Pilgrim

Inner peace is found by facing life squarely, solving its problems, and delving as far beneath its surface as possible to discover its verities and realities.

Paula White

Someone's opinion of you isn't reality... unless you decide to allow it!! You are who God says you are!!!

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.

Peter King

The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.

Peter L. Berger

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

Peter Frampton

Recorded music is basically free now. I used to tour to promote a CD, but now I make a CD to promote a tour. I've moved on and live with the new reality, but I do get frustrated when people do dumb things.

Peter Facinelli

We've always had to worry about the electrical grid and nuclear facilities, and they remain a concern; but cyber-terrorism, you know, which is a word that you hear more and more, I think is a reality.

Peter Brook

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

Pele

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

Pema Chodron

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.

Pema Chodron

Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

Pema Chodron

As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.

Pema Chodron

As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. But what we need to acknowledge is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Pema Chodron

The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality...

Phil Gramm

I think in the end we will have negotiations with the House. They don't have any incentive for a long, drawn-out trial. We'll have negotiations with the White House. Despite all their threats they are going to have a prolonged defense. The reality is they are the driving force behind getting this over quickly.

Phil Donahue

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

Phil Collins

Non-physicality may soon come to dominate our reality. Thanx Quatum Mechanics!

Peter Sellers

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

Peter Senge

An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

Peter Senge

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

Peter Senge

Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

Peter Senge

In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.

Peter Senge

Leadership is about creating new realities.

Peter Senge

Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

Peter Senge

Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but participate in creating new circumstances. Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately, leadership is about creating new realities.

Peter Piot

The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.

Pete Sampras

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

Pierre Trudeau

In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We only have to look around us to see how complexity ... and psychic "temperature" are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a directionally controlled transformation of the Noosphere "as a whole."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.

Rachel Carson

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Rachel Cusk

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.