Quotes About Actual

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

And whereas holiness may be reduced unto two heads,—1. The renovation of the image of God in us; 2. Universal actual obedience,—they are the sum of the preceptive part of the gospel, Eph. iv. 22–24; Tit. ii. 11, 12.

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.

I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.

Biological evolution is part of the winding-down process by which the informational gap between the potential and the actual tends to be reduced.

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.

Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.

None of us should be given a pass on having to have actual libertarian positions, or not be able to be called out when you say you oppose marriage equality. You know, that's not a libertarian position to have. State's rights is not a libertarian position, and it's something Ron Paul had pushed for a long time.

Notice how broadly Mill set his harm principle. It is not enough to say that people who hate the idea of homosexuality suffer mental distress at the knowledge that it is legal. They must suffer actual harm, and as they do not, they cannot prohibit it.

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.