A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery. — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must… — Evelyn Underhill 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
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
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
We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising… — Philip Guston 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
In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which… — Michael Haneke 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
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
He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream . . . But… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets… — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity. — Paul Kane 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
Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency. — Soren Kierkegaard 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
There's people who feel that, Well, if I could profit off of sellin' sex to an eleven-year-old kid that comes through some… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
