Real Quotes - Page 45

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.

What's important to remember politically about this, is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an Exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits. But your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you’re essentially saying to your citizens, you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that’s a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these Exchanges, and that they’ll do it. But you know, once again, the politics can get ugly around this.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

I say that trials and tests locate a person. In other words they determine where you are spiritually. They reveal the true condition of your heart. How you react under pressure is how the real you reacts.

Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.

The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.

In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time considering and brooding over what we can't do, rather than what we can do, and instead of growing morose and despondent over opportunities either real or imaginary that are shut from us, let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer and upon which there is no color line; simply the survival of the fittest.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies.

I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.

We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.

People are in your life for a reason, others are there for a season and it's important to realize when those seasons are over.

The One who lives outside of time invites you into a reality that is informed by His perfect plans to give you hope and a future. God speaks in the past tense about battles you’re currently fighting. And He buries the shame of yesterday in order to resurrect the moment you are in and sustain you in the season He is calling you to embrace.

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.

Once over there [Balkans], I felt extremely patriotic. Here are these people, from 18-year-olds to military veterans, enduring real duress for the cause of peace. I don't ever want to play for a regular audience again, only military folks who are starving for music.

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner phantasms or of external influences, who refuse to submit passively to the play of psychological forces which is going on within them, and who are determined to become the master of their own lives.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality