The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable)… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
Christian Grey - he isn't a real person. He's a superhero. A myth. He's like Bigfoot! He's unbelievable. He's unattainable. There's no… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has… — Kara Lindsay Copy Share Image
If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark,… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“In my lifetime I have witnessed far too many miracles to believe in impossibilities, and so I am officially modifying the definition.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis:… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
There's mornings when my body aches or my mind is just not with it. But that's part of being an athlete and… — Jonathan Horton Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again.… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after… — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I never considered a career in music because it was too unattainable. I just didn't believe it was possible. — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It’s one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere… — Samantha Barks Copy Share Image
Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past,… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
If you have kids who are struggling with dyslexia, the greatest gift you can give them is the sense that nothing is… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image