Famous Quotes & Sayings

Soren Kierkegaard

It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

Stephen Bayley

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

Stephen Baldwin

When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't.

Stephen Colbert

I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Stephen Colbert

As we all know, reality has a liberal bias.

Stephen Colbert

It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.

Stefan Zweig

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Tim Storey

Today's decisions are tomorrow's realities.

Tim Walker

I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.

Tim Wise

The system of white supremacy is intended to make folks of color doubt themselves, their intelligence, their abilities, their very sanity. And so it's important to remember that folks of color know their own realities.

Tim Cook

The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.

Thom Mayne

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

Thom Mayne

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

Woody Allen

Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.

Woody Allen

I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.

Woody Allen

You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.

Woody Allen

I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them.

Woody Allen

Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak.

Woody Allen

I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of injustice and overt crime every day in the world, from emotional crimes to international crimes, and it often carries rewards.

Woody Allen

Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble.

Woody Allen

The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.

William Whewell

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements.

William Shirley

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

William Morris Hunt

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

William J. Clinton

It's only in America where there seems to be this sort of systematic denial of the reality of global warming at the governmental level, and in too many sectors of the high, the private sector. But it looks to me the business community may actually lead us toward a clean energy future almost in spite of government policy.

William J. Clinton

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William James

It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

William James

When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.

William James

Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.

William James

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

William James

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

William James

Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.

William James

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing