Real Quotes - Page 39

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

The best thing is to realize that you are who you are and you gotta work with what you got.

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

Through your support of UN peacekeeping, you can help to make this tantalizing word-"peace"-a reality for all the world's citizens. Together, we can spread the message that UN peacekeeping is essential. Without it, the world would be a much less stable, and more violent, place.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love

A thought is an idea in transit.

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.

When we realize and embrace the Lord's will for us, we will love to do it. We won't want to do anything else. It's a passion.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

In Hawaii, we greet friends, loved ones or strangers with Aloha, which means love. Aloha is the key word to the universal spirit of real hospitality, which makes Hawaii renowned as the world's center of understanding and fellowship. Try meeting or leaving people with Aloha. You'll be surprised by their reaction. I believe it and it is my creed. Aloha to you.

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.