Quotes About Realities

economies depend a lot more on perceptions than realities.

What is done with one's vision of the past has enormous implications for how present realities are handled and the quality of idealism that can be applied to shaping the future.

Being an adult comes with a whole new set of issues.

Most people strive to adjust their portfolios based on what they think lies ahead. At the same time, however, most people would admit forward visibility just isn't that great. That's why I make the case for responding to the current realities and their implications, as opposed to expecting the future to be made clear.

Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

There isn't much a pan of warm Brownies and a glass of milk will fix. In less it's low grain prices. Or poverty. Or the national debt. I guess there are a few things, but nothing you have to worry about right this minute.

In the past, love for me has always meant forever, and sure, you still nurse some of those fantasies, but I don't try to force it anymore. I hung on to my fairy-tale ideals for a long time. But where I am now, what I've been through, there are no rules. There are lots of ways it can turn out instead of just one. There are so many different kinds of happiness, not just the one you learned about when you were 5 years old.

No, adulting is like"—she searched for the right words—"looking both ways before you cross the street and then getting hit by an airplane.

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

You'll end up real disappointed if you think people will do for you as you do for them. Not everyone has the same heart as you.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Leadership is the science of converting possibilities in to realities and the art of drawing a picture that others think is their.

Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

God has deliberately chosen this particular vehicle as the one that drives His activity in people's lives. It's what He allows us to use to cooperate and partner with Him in the fulfilling of His will. He's created prayer as a primary way of putting us into personal contact with Him and with His eternal realities, any hour of the day or night.

Despite what we may or may not understand about prayer, God has deliberately chosen this particular vehicle as the one that drives His activity in people's lives. It's what He allows us to use to cooperate and partner with Him in the fulfilling of His will. He's created prayer as a primary way of putting us into personal contact with Him and with His eternal realities, any hour of the day or night.

Their relationship wouldn't be easy and the realities of a future with him were intimidating. Yet the strength of her attraction overcame her doubts.

I was going to be a doctor, but who makes it as a doctor anymore?

Second, there is a general tendency to think that the NAME itself can evoke, invoke, and provides what might be called conscious cognitive mental access INTO the conceptual realities that have been named as things-in-themselves. This MAY be workable depending on what is involved, but it tends to be unworkable if conceptual realities are NOT discrete things-in- themselves.

Your ideas, your dreams and your realities are the fuel that feeds the future.

Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

I realize we could physically fit everybody there (Texas)... that doesn't mean they could all be fed, and clothed, and given iPhones

I'm interested in people with very exceptional world views or realities.

When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe some brutal event the same way we would describe getting a taxi or missing the bus.