Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Adams

I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet.

Scott Adams

Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.

Ray Rhodes

At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life.

Jostein Gaarder

But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.

Jostein Gaarder

A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little.

Joseph Epstein

The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.

Joss Whedon

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

Joss Whedon

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

Kofi Annan

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

Kofi Annan

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.

Kim Jong Il

It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it is my greatest pleasure to work energetically, sharing my joys and sorrows with our people, on the road of translating my wish into reality.

Kim Kardashian

My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.

Kim Kardashian

People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show.

Kenzaburo Oe

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

Kendrick Lamar

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

Keith Miller

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

Keith Haring

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

Katy Perry

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything.

Ramana Maharshi

The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.

Ramana Maharshi

The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

Ramana Maharshi

There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.

Ramana Maharshi

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

Ramana Maharshi

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

Ralph Cudworth

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Ralph Ellison

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way. They’re founded in the belief that revolution doesn’t belong on the cinema screen but outside in the world. Never mind if a film ends pessimistically but exposes certain mechanisms clearly enough to show people how they work and the ultimate effect is not pessimistic. My goal is to reveal such mechanisms in a way that makes people realize the necessity of changing their own reality.

Rachel Zoe

I think when you're really stressed out and can't really face reality... you shop.

Radhanath Swami

Crying out to the lord is the only eternal reality within this temporary world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it -- let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reality is more excellent than the report.