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
“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
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to… — Carl Jung 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“My conception of a novel is that it ought to be a personal struggle, a direct and total engagement with the author's… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I have friends that I have made through Twitter or things like that, but they're all verified as real people - I've… — Katie Featherston Copy Share Image
“The simple fact of the matter is that trying to be perfectly likable is incompatible with loving relationships. Sooner or later, for… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I… — Donald Richie 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
I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
“What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Dont ever thing u wont survive widout anyone..those who do dat r very wrong n dnt no beauty of life..coz sum r… — Raveen Copy Share Image
dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary… — Maude Meagher Copy Share Image