You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers. — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
“ In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first step forward in faith. ” — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Consider this an honest look at falling in love, loving yourself, and being loved in the social media age. It’s a guide… — Nev Schulman Copy Share Image
“After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“The actual lifespan of a thought is very short…unless you believe it, trust it, or take direction from it.. Then it can… — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
“Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The only times I get uncomfortable is when people are looking into my actual life, just because, like anybody, there's tons of… — Alex G Copy Share Image
You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to… — Winnie Holzman Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger Copy Share Image
At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Work in classrooms isn’t significant work; it fails to satisfy real needs pressing on the individual; it doesn’t answer real questions experience… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
If it be asked, Why does God not bestow the same or equal blessing upon all people? we can only answer, that… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
“The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Little by little it became the scene of his real life, of his only rational activities; thither he brought the books he… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“I will be in the afterlife, which as we all know controls the actual life. I will haunt you for the rest… — Christopher Higgs Copy Share Image
“The group of artists and scientists that had so far done least was the one that had attracted the greatest interest—and the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians.… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Sweet Sunday afternoons, beneath the chestnut-tree in our Combray garden, from which I was careful to eliminate every commonplace incident of my… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“I maintain, then, that scientific psychology (and, it may be added, the psychology of the same kind that we all unconsciously practise… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life. — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
