Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Hill

The dominating thoughts of my mind... will transform themselves into physical reality

Napoleon Bonaparte

The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope

Northrop Frye

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

Norman O. Brown

The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.

Norman O. Brown

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

Os Guinness

What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and become the controlling principle of life. Instead of viewing the problem from the vantage point of faith, the doubter views faith from the vantage point of the problem. Instead of faith sizing up the problem, the situation ends with the problem scaling down faith. The world of faith is upside down, and in the topsy-turvy reality of doubt, a problem has become god and God has become a problem.

Oscar de la Renta

The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die,

Oscar de la Renta

The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die. We always think we are going to live forever. The dying aspect we will never accept. The one thing about having this kind of warning is how you appreciate every single day of life.

Orson Welles

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents reality.

Orison Swett Marden

Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details in the architects mind before a stone or brick is laid, so we create mentally everything which later becomes a reality in our achievement.

Olafur Eliasson

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.

Olafur Eliasson

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

Olive Schreiner

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

Octavian Paler

The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.

Octavia Spencer

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

Octavio Paz

It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

Merrill Markoe

I really enjoyed Merrill Markoe's Guide To Glamorous Living, which was a weird hybrid reality/sketch thing I wrote, directed, and hosted, with two male-model bimbos whom I made agree with everything I said.

Merrill Markoe

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

Merrill Markoe

Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

Meir Kahane

There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.

Masashi Kishimoto

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

Masashi Kishimoto

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?

Masashi Kishimoto

...Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?

Mason Cooley

In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.

Mason Cooley

The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.

Mason Cooley

Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.

Mason Cooley

Realism: the wealth of detail guarantees the truth of the tale.

Mason Cooley

The realism of failure, the romance of success.

Mason Cooley

Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.

Mason Cooley

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

Martin Van Buren

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.

Michael Grant

But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.