Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Barenboim

Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.

Daniel Barenboim

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

Dag Hammarskjold

Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.

Dag Hammarskjold

The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.

Condola Rashad

In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor." It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

Claude McKay

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Clarence Thomas

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

Dan Simmons

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

Dan Eldon

Once one has been to these challenging terrible places they’re always strangely drawn back… because there’s nothing that can compare to seeing the raw reality of the basic human need for survival. It disgusts and inspires

Meryl Streep

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

Meryl Streep

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

Dogen

Do not be amazed by the true dragon.

Dogen

What is reality? An icicle forming in fire.

When I first started playing, it was fun. It's still fun, but at the professional level, I have to look at whether or not I'm getting it done. The reality is if you're not, you can get fired.

Ludwig von Mises

The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

You can get a reality show about anything,

Petrarch

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

James A. Baldwin

Color is not a human or a personal reality it is a political reality.

Let me take you to some reality. We're all spoiled. We like to keep it that way. ... This is a trade-off, and that's what we're telling you about.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

Ann Voskamp

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

Albert Bandura

Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with different realities

Albert Bandura

Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.

Albert Bandura

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Albert Hofmann

By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.

Albert Camus

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Albert Camus

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

Albert Camus

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Albert Camus

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

Albert Camus

The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.

America Ferrera

I think the body image thing, everybody can identify with that. In our culture there's just so much pressure and so much attention placed on the way we look. You just turn on the TV or flip open a magazine and there's people who don't look like any of us. I think this movie is like, finally, a celebration of reality and of our imperfections. We're not all a size 2 and we're not all a size 0, and you know what? That's OK, because some of us like to eat!

Annie Besant

In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is.