Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Gompers

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

Samuel Beckett

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

Samuel Beckett

The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

Salvador Dali

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality...

Salman Rushdie

The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.

Salman Rushdie

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

Salman Rushdie

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Salman Rushdie

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

Salman Rushdie

Reality is a question of perspective;

Rudolf Steiner

The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.

Rudolf Steiner

Beauty is not the divine in a cloak of physical reality; no, it is physical reality in a cloak that is divine. The artist does not bring the divine on to the earth by letting it flow into the world; he raises the world into the sphere of the divine.

Walton Goggins

When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.

Wangari Maathai

We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.

Vincent Bugliosi

The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases. And if they do not know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs who handle criminal cases. It's very incestuous.

Wayne Gretzky

Listen, first of all, my wife is my best friend. My love for her is deeper than anything. The reality is, I'm not involved, I wasn't involved and I'm not going to be involved. Am I concerned for both of them Sure there's concern from me. I'm more worried about them than me. I'm like you guys, I'm trying to figure it all out.

Wayne Dyer

...this moment... is the only physical reality you have.

Wayne Dyer

In reality, it's much easier not to smoke or eat chocolate than to do so. It's your mind that convinces you otherwise.

Wayne Dyer

In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.

Wayne Dyer

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

Wayne Dyer

My intentions create my reality.

Van Morrison

There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of a slow ballad type of thing on records, but when it came to performing, I felt I was limiting myself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What is life without incompatible realities?

Ursula K. Le Guin

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

Vladimir Putin

South Korea's investment in Russia has not been smooth, ... Korea had planned to carry out 126 investment projects worth 273 million, but in reality, only 91 projects worth 137 million are under way.

Vladimir Putin

One of the most important tasks is to broaden the energy supply ... Energy determines today international security and social as well as economic development in many respects. In reality the wellbeing of millions of people is directly dependent in energy security.

William Godwin

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

William Godwin

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

Wilferd Peterson

You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time.

Washington Allston

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

Stephen Bayley

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.