I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities.… — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
There is practically no area of business where the difference between rhetoric and actuality is greater than in the handling of people. — John Harvey-Jones Copy Share Image
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We would often rather seem dutiful to others than to succeed in our duties; and often we would rather tell our friends… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The problems of philosophy and the systems designed to solve them are formulated in terms which tend to refer, not to the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer… — Seth Copy Share Image
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types,"… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“The actuality of Nature is like the beauty of Nature. We can scarcely describe the beauty of a landscape as non-existent when… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
the American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I… — The Rocket Summer Copy Share Image
Modern photography must do more than entertain, it must incite thought and by its clear statements of actuality, cultivate a sympathetic understanding… — Max Dupain Copy Share Image
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is… — Pharoahe Monch Copy Share Image
Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination,… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In hip hop, 'real' has always meant one who represents in actuality what they present in imagery. For instance, once upon a… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
I had difficulty being friends with women who hadn't worked in either the sex or beauty industries. I felt like other women… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
I think I have more optimism than they do and I think I have a better vision for the country than [Barack… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why… — William Mortensen Copy Share Image
What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Let’s watch out for the unpredictability and the wildcat jumps of contrarian people, whose sole interests are soaring targets at high-speed, at… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The superhero shows and movies are always having the spotlight on the superheroes themselves. It's never about the people who are living… — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large.… — William Walsh Copy Share Image
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