Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Paul

Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.

Sam Mendes

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.

Rumi

The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities.

Casinos are spreading like wildfire, and it seems to be an entertainment option that a significant number of people engage in. That's just the reality of gaming that it is proving to be attractive to a great number of people.

Ron Perlman

I expect that everything I do will be not watched or not seen. That way, I'm never disappointed when I become flooded with that reality.

Ron Perlman

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

Roger Zelazny

... "fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water" do not matter. "I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.

Roland Barthes

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

Susan Rice

There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.

Susan Davis

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

Suranga Chandratillake

The reality is the majority of people are talking about it, but haven't launched it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Sidney Blumenthal

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

Sheryl WuDunn

Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

Sheila Nevins

I do less-fanciful reality. I celebrate the fat, the ugly, the women who can't get guys. I'm not trying to entertain you; I'm trying to make you passionate.

Neil Patrick Harris

Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane. And if some of our institutions seem not to fit the template of the times, why it is they and not the template, that seem to us disordered and strange.

Natalie Gulbis

I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.

Taylor Swift

It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.

Tony Robbins

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

Tony Blair

I think all of our experience with (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there,.

Tony Blair

You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.

Tom Ridge

An idea on paper to a reality in large part.

Simone de Beauvoir

... words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive ...

Simone Weil

One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action.

Simone Weil

Joy is being fully aware of reality ...

Simone Weil

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

Simon Sinek

Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.

Simon Sinek

Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.

Simon Mainwaring

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

Thomas Mann

Everything is politics.

Thomas Merton

The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.