Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Dirac

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

Paul Davies

Matter is regarded as being constituted by a region of space in which the field is extremely intense . . . . . . There is no place in this new kind of Physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

Paul Davies

The Universe is not a collection of objects, but is an inseparable web of vibrating energy patterns in which no one component has reality independently from the entirety. Included in the entirety is the observer.

Patrick Wilson

For me, it doesn't matter whether it's a comedy, a Western or horror. As long as you've got a good story to tell, the genre almost doesn't matter. As an actor playing the role, it's all rooted in reality.

John Searle

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

John Phillips

Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.

John Piper

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

John Piper

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

John Piper

All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.

Mark Thomas

True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.

Mark Tobey

Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.

Mark Strand

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.

Mark Steyn

But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn’t free at all. So screw that.

Nick Cave

The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.

Nam June Paik

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

Paulo Freire

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

Paulo Freire

Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality.

Paulo Freire

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

Paulo Freire

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

Ozzy Osbourne

I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

Ovid

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

Paul Feig

The good thing is that I really think that American television is in kind of a second golden age. Even though there's a lot of reality and all those contest shows, which aren't my kind of shows, the scripted stuff that's going on is so good right now because of basic cable. Everyone has stepped it up and realised that people like quality.

Marya Mannes

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Mary Higgins Clark

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

Mary Gauthier

That's the reality in the Catholic Church today You don't want to build something that will be OK for now, when you know this large population is going to get bigger.

Marshall McLuhan

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Marguerite Young

When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

Marguerite Young

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

Oswald Chambers

When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word

Oswald Chambers

But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.

Oswald Chambers

Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?

Oswald Chambers

By realizing the reality of our Prince within us, we are never bothered again by the fact that we do not understand ourselves, or that other people do not understand us. The only One who truly understands me is the One who made me and who redeems me... It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of every kind of self-consideration and learn to care about only one thing - the relationship between our Prince and ourselves.

Oswald Chambers

When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.