Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

John Dryden

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Louis Sachar

We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.

Lord Acton

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

M. Scott Peck

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

M. Scott Peck

Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.

M. Scott Peck

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

M. Scott Peck

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

John Boyega

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, when you're dealing with reality, I feel like films should discover the part that is happy.

John Bolton

Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.

Maurice Sendak

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

Matthieu Ricard

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

Matt Taibbi

It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

Meg Rosoff

I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.

May Sinclair

Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

Maya Angelou

A single fantasy can transform a million realities.

Max Weber

All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.

Max Weber

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

Max Weber

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Max Beesley

I appreciate some people enjoy reality TV and enjoy being a part of it - and I do watch it - but it isn't for me.

Max Beckmann

What is important to me in my work is the identity that is hidden behind so-called reality. I search for a bridge from the given present tot the invisible, rather as a famous cabalist once said, 'If you wish to grasp the invisible, penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible'.

Max Beckmann

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence.

Max Beckmann

The greatest mystery of all is reality.

Max Beckmann

The individual representation of the object, treated sympathetically or antipathetically, is highly necessary and is an enrichment to the world in form. The elimination of the human relationship causes the vacuum which makes all of us suffer in various degrees - an individual alteration of the details of the object represented is necessary in order to display on the canvas the whole physicals reality.

Max Beckmann

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

Max Beerbohm

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary...

Matthew Rhys

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

Matthew Quick

What is reality if it isn't how we feel about things?

Matthew McConaughey

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

Matthew Continetti

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

Matthew Bourne

It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.

Mark Skousen

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.