Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Huffington

When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.

Michael Dowd

God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!

Michael Emerson

If we go into white congregations, non-whites will sometimes say it felt like worship never started. It was sort of dead and didn't feel that warmly received. But so - and there are different realities either way, and it makes it difficult for all groups to try and cross boundaries.

Ray Bradbury

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

Ramsey Clark

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

Rand Paul

In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their self-interest to have a more stable Middle East because trade enriches us all.

Rand Paul

Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.

Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next. Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, is your permanent reality.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it.

Sheena Iyengar

In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.

Shane Carruth

I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

Serge Daney

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Seamus Mallon

There's no such thing as a short review. It will take a long time to get it started. That's the reality. And it will be probably even longer to complete it.

Seamus Heaney

The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.

Seamus Heaney

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Sean Connery

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

Schuyler Fisk

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

Michelle Obama

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

Michelle Obama

Being president isn't anything like reality TV.

Michael Perrin

Clearly, we were hoping to get some competitive proposals, but the reality is there are only a small number of firms that would be interested and have the wherewithal to bid.

Michael Pollan

There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create a new set of rules and incentives to send it down a better track, but finally people in the first world are going to have to consume a whole lot less.

Michael Lerner

. . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet. Even people who have no interest in a communal solution to the distortions in our lives will have to face up [to] this ecological reality. Unless we transform our relationship with nature, we will destroy the preconditions for human life on this planet.

Seth Gordon

The best movies are rooted in reality.

Seth Gabel

I think what's so great about 'Arrow' is that they really ground everything in reality.

Ravi Zacharias

Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is.

Tom Hiddleston

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

Tom DeLay

Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought - every aspect of creation. Only Christianity offers a way to live in response to the realities that we find in this world - only Christianity.

Tom Cruise

Perception and reality are two different things.

Todd Wagner

We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality.

Todd Phillips

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.

Tobias Lindholm

Sometimes it seems like if you open up the door to reality and invite it in, it will just come flowing.

Slick Rick

We need realism to deal with reality.