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Actuality Quotes (page 52)

Paulo Coelho quote: "We see the world in terms of what we would like to see happen,..."
We see the world in terms of what we would like to see happen, not what actually does. Paulo Coelho
We should leave people alone about their weight. Being skinny for a while (provided you actually eat food and don't take pills or smoke to get there) is a perfectly fine pastime. Everyone should try it once, like a super-short haircut or dating a white guy. Tina Fey
And so what moved him onward and down the office building’s stairway was not any sort of foolish hope that he could actually be saved, but competitive fury at the fact that he had been outdone by the suicidal improvisations of this fanatic. Neal Stephenson
Hamlet's mother says to Hamlet, "Why seems it so particular with thee?" What is the difference between belief and make-belief? What makes us give to any one belief (since it is only a matter of shifting, tuning the mind) the peculiar weight of actuality? "For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. Graham Swift
In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were Nicholas Sparks
I don’t want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead)… Stephen King
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually..."
You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming. F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation. Octavio Paz
James Patterson quote: "Nudge: "I look like prep school Barbie. (looks at Max)..."
Nudge: "I look like prep school Barbie. (looks at Max) Actually, you look like prep school Barbie. I'm just Barbie's friend. James Patterson
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. Ralph Waldo Emerson
People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant. Terry Prachett
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. Fran Lebowitz
Barbara was actually Jeff Foxworthy's interior designer when we first met. So, not only was Jeff responsible for my success in my career, he also introduced me to the woman who I'm going to spend the rest of my life with, which, I think, makes us even. Ron White
Creationist? Well, no, it’s not creationist either. The point is that we are probably a bit less top-to-bottom thorough than, say, the Army Corps of Engineers. Well, actually, scratch that. We are probably about exactly as thorough as the Army Corps of Engineers, in that we are intermittently thorough. Dave Eggers
J. G. Ballard quote: "After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it..."
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. J. G. Ballard

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