Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oswald Chambers

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

Lester Holt

There are two economic realities in America today. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation. However, income inequality remains significant, and nearly half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Leon Panetta

The president is out there today trying to talk about health care, and the reality is nobody cares about what he's saying on health care because this news is consuming everything. No president could tolerate that or should tolerate it.

LeAnn Rimes

The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.

Laurence Fishburne

I've been a fan of Mads since the “Casino Royale” movie. I really sat up and paid attention to him. I was like, “Who is this motherf**ker?” Even his work in something as sort of popcorn as “Clash of the Titans,” he brings a kind of danger and reality and he grounds it in such a way that you think, yes, I'm good to work with this guy. I should come back, just stay behind him. (Laughs) Our working relationship has been fantastic.

Laurence Gonzales

To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.

Lauren Willig

There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.

Larry Sabato

The national media will talk about (national problems) because it's something that everyone in all 50 states can understand, but the reality is these are minor factors. These are local races. ... The issues tend to be less ideological than for Senate races or races for president. ... It's about potholes and streetlights.

Larry Wall

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...

Lake Bell

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

L. Frank Baum

As the years pass, and we look back on something which, at the time, seemed unbelievably discouraging and unfair, we come to realize that, after all, God was at all times on our side. The eventual outcome was, we discover, by far the best solution for us, and what we thought should have been to our best advantage, would in reality have been quite detrimental.

L. Neil Smith

Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.

Pablo Picasso

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

Pablo Picasso

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Pablo Picasso

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

Pablo Picasso

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

Pablo Picasso

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

Pablo Picasso

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

Pablo Picasso

Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

Paul Singer

Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.

Paul Johnson

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

Paul Celan

A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something. Toward what? Toward something standing open, occupiable, perhaps toward an addressable Thou, toward an addressable reality.

Paul Celan

Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

Paul Cezanne

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Oscar Wilde

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Oscar Wilde

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

Oscar Wilde

For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

Jack Paar

To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland.

Ismail Haniyeh

We urge you to understand the Palestinian reality, and not to rush in and impose conditions and demands that ignore this reality and increase the suffering of the people.

Isak Dinesen

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

Imelda Marcos

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Hunter Tylo

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.