Actuality Quotes - Page 6

• I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he is reading a poem. So the titles are an acknowledgment of the reality and value of that act in the world.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Reading, Reality, Ideas

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• Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.

  Criss Jami

  Stress, Air, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.92, Criss Jami

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• Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.

  Jane Roberts

  Giving, World, Dimensions

  Jane Roberts (2012). “Seth Speaks (A Seth Book): The Eternal Validity of the Soul”, p.313, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• The thing that is always so surprising about plays written in another century is how remarkably elastic they are. When you listen to the way in which Shakespeare attacks relationships, for example, even though the words may start off sounding foreign, in actuality they are so accessible, the motivations so clear, the resonances so contemporary. When you put it in a modern context - we could well be in a place with someone like Gaddafi or Mubarak - it becomes apparent how Richard III resonates with that type of personality, with media and manipulation, alliances and petty jealousies.

  Kevin Spacey

  Motivation, Media, Play

  Speech at the Old Vic, Summer 2011.

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• I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, War, Principles

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• Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.

  James Joyce

  Daughter, Memories, War

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2218, Delphi Classics

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• The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.

  Werner Heisenberg

  World, Ontology, Impossible

  Werner Heisenberg (1962). “Physics and philosophy: the revolution in modern science”, Harpercollins College Div

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• Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

  Bill Cowher

  Reality, Differences, Perception

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• It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Tests, Should, Prose

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• It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other hand, abstract belief is largely impossible; it is the concrete, the actuality of the cup, the candle, the sacrificial stone, which hardens belief; the statue is nothing until it cries, the philosophy is nothing until the philosopher is martyred.

  Shirley Jackson

  Philosophy, Hands, Exotic

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• In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Bye, Imagination, Spite

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• the American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women fighting our wars are deploying again and again, civilian life remains pretty much isolated in cost-free complacency.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Fighting, Men

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.207, Broadway Books

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• In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.

  Mary Cantwell

  Daughter, Growing Up, Memories

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• I am not especially good at remembering the actualities of the world I inhabit, but I have pretty strong associative memories of how it feels to live in that world, and to wonder at its weird machinations, at any age.

  Scott Bradfield

  Strong, Memories, Age

  "Go Forth (Vol. 15)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. September 10, 2013.

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• So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.

  Aristotle

  Giving, Soul, Body

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• When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?

  Ellen Glasgow

  War, Civilization, Evil

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• For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; asthough there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Fall, Together, Foundation

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• ..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?

  James Lee Burke

  Drinking, Believe, School

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• Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Yield, Discipline, Consistency

  "On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1841.

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• Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.

  Joseph Hertz

  Fall, Belief, Historic

  Joseph Herman Hertz (1996). “ספר חמשה חומשי תורה עם ההפטרות: נדפס על פי המסורה ומתורגם אנגלית”

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• It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

  Gary Busey

  Love, Friends, Enemy

  FaceBook post by Gary Busey from Mar 05, 2013

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• We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

  Sigmund Freud

  Real, Long, Purpose

  Sigmund Freud (2008). “General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Talking, Years, Topics

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• Because if he looked like he was unaffected by her smile, then she would not realize that, in actuality, he was in an utter panic because somewhere deep down inside he’d realized that his life had just changed forever.

  Julia Quinn

  Forever, Panic, Realizing

  Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway (2012). “The Lady Most Likely: A Novel in Three Parts”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Thinking

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.196, Hachette UK

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