Fiction Near Reality Quotes & Sayings

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man. — Alfred De Vigny

Forgiveness is the one gift you don't give to others. Rather, it is the gift you give yourself, so you can finally be free. — Shannon L. Alder

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become. — Henry Martyn

We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say — G.L.S. Shackle

When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes. — Seth Shostak

The deposit of the faith is one thing ... the way it is expressed is another. — Pope John XXIII

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited. — Townsend Harris

Hunter smirked. "Nice to see you, too, Paris."
Paris? All I could think of was Orlando Bloom and Brad Pitt. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Then why do I think you've been hiding something from me ever since that night?"
"No clue. Why do I think you've been hiding something from me ever since that night?"
"No clue. — Darynda Jones

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape. — Dave Eggers

A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine. — Ray Wise

I look at the white woman's cards and listen to her bold English words - dog, cat, house - and there is all the evidence of what is to come in my life. I am not to go the way of the two people I long for in the thick terror of the night. The first man I love and the first woman I adore, my father and my mother with their Spanish words, are not in these cards. The road before me is English and the next part too awful to ask aloud or even silently: What is so wrong with my parents that I am not to mimic their hands, their needs, not even their words? — Daisy Hernandez

Frame everything and some of it will become art. — Benny Bellamacina

Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it's no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know. — Jackie Chan

I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy. — Wendi Deng Murdoch

How often do you ignore a dream, dismiss it as fantasy and then see echoes of the dream around you the following day? What if a dream were the forewarning of what will become your reality; if you are being told within the world of a dream what may occur in the near or distant future, but your mind mangles the truth and information so much that you discard it as fiction? — Samantha Robertson