Actuality Quotes

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People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that… — Lorrie Moore
It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive… — Kenny Smith
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
To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with… — Ajahn Chah
Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but… — Jason Mraz
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit… — Helen Keller
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the… — E. M. Forster
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever… — William Ernest Henley
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at… — John Updike
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality. — John Cage
It is my belief that there is a tendency among the so-called 'modern' or 'hip' jazz musicians to consider styles other that their own, 'corny',… — Don Ellis
Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms… — Philip Guston
Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite. — Bernard Bolzano
Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In… — Errol Flynn
Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is… — William Walsh
Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much… — Criss Jami
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating… — Sigmund Freud
Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now. — Carlos Ghosn
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. — James Joyce
The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to… — C.S. Lewis

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