Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Barbara Tuchman

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

Barbara Tuchman

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

Ayad Akhtar

Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.

Arthur Eddington

The word reality frightens me.

Arthur C. Clarke

Training was one thing, reality another.

Arthur C. Clarke

Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.

Arthur C. Clarke

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

bell hooks

We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations.

bell hooks

As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn about feminism from patriarchal mass media.

bell hooks

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

Bam Margera

These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!

Baltasar Gracian

Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

Baltasar Gracian

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Ariel Gore

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.

Ariel Sharon

I cannot deny that I have doubts, reservations and fears. However, I have come to the conclusion that in the present regional and international reality, Israel must act with courage to accept the political plan which I described.

Ariel Sharon

The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.

Arianna Huffington

Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.

Ayman Nour

The results have no relation to reality. We won't give legitimacy to something that is illegitimate.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

Diane Arbus

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

Diane Arbus

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

Diana Vreeland

Exaggeration is my only reality.

Diane Ackerman

Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

Jason Calacanis

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

We know what the reality is, and what we need to get.

Dick Armey

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

Diane Setterfield

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

David Brooks

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

David Brooks

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

Alexis Carrel

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

Alexis Carrel

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The civil jury is the most effective form of sovereignty of the people. It defies the aggressions of time and man. During the reigns of Henry VIII (1509-1547) and Elizabeth I (1158-1603), the civil jury did in reality save the liberties of England.