Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Constable

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.

John Bunyan

[Mr. Gifford] made it much his business to deliver the people of God from all those false and unsound rests that by nature we are prone to make and take to our souls. He pressed us to take special heed that we took not up any truth upon trust - as from this or that, or any other man or men - but to cry mightily to God that He would convince us of the reality thereof, and set us down therein by his own Spirit in the holy word.

Joel Miller

Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard outside changed to reflect the reality of the market within hours. The other sends out a press release, tries to organize a hearing, and at the end of amount accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile, the gas station has already made at least thirty additional adjustments to the realities of the market while your politico fails to get anything more than easy media.

Joel Salatin

How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickly we want other people to solve these issues.

Joel Osteen

A victor's mentality becomes a victor's reality.

Louise Hay

We forget that we create the situations, then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for “we” are the only thinkers in our mind. We create our experiences, our reality, and everyone in it. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our mind, we will find it in our lives.

Louise Hay

Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now.

Louise Hay

I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.

Louise Hay

I change my life when I change my thinking. I am Light. I am Spirit. I am a wonderful, capable being. And it is time for me to acknowledge that I create my own reality with my thoughts. If I want to change my reality, then it is time for me to change my mind.

John D. Rockefeller

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

John Charles Polanyi

Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

John Charles Polanyi

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

Lisa Kleypas

I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.

Lionel Trilling

The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.

Lionel Trilling

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Lion Feuchtwanger

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

Lindsey Vonn

I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.

Lindsey Graham

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

Lindsay Lohan

As sick as it sounds, a reality show might help, actually. At least then people could get the truth.

Linda Evans

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

Lincoln Steffens

Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.

Lil' Kim

I'ma make sure the family keep a decent meal, no matter what I got to do or who I got to kill.

Lil' Kim

Imagine for a minute yourself in the same shoes, the same sense of survival and the same nothing to lose.

Lil Wayne

I pay these niggas with a reality check......

You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.

Leon Battista Alberti

Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen.

Leo Tolstoy

I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.

Leo Tolstoy

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

Lester Bangs

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

Lawrence Kasdan

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.

Lawrence M. Krauss

You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.

Lawrence M. Krauss

For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.

Lawrence Lessig

I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed from traditional First Amendment jurisprudence, and that made sense before the Internet. Now there is an unavoidable link between First Amendment interests and the scope of copyright law. The legal system is recognizing for the first time the extraordinary expanse of copyright regulation and its regulation of ordinary free-speech activities.