Irreal Quotes & Sayings

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts. — Louisa May Alcott

parked and placed the POLICE sign on the dashboard. — Ian Rankin

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world. — W.E.B. Du Bois

When you move from a different country, it takes a while to make friends. I found myself being lonely a lot at first. In New Delhi, I had all my family. But Portland is one of those cities you can immerse yourself in and feel comfortable. People are so friendly. — Kunal Nayyar

You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is. — Kerry Washington

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence. — Noam Chomsky

They who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time, may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come. — Philip Neri

I became a sales manager at Digital Equipment, promoted from within the sales team. My peers were less than excited that I had gotten the job, especially one of my male peers who said he just wasn't going to work for a woman. — Carol Bartz

We seek to unify ourselves with the endless light of truth, of God, of nirvana. We recognize the infinite playing through all beings and all forms, but we only have to concern ourselves with ourselves. — Frederick Lenz

Every time I can't seem to figure out where I'm going lately I always end up where you are. — Jay Crownover

Only two miracles are worth seeing: The miracle of loving And The miracle of forgiving. — Sri Chinmoy

That life sometimes imitates art is a mere Oscar Wilde-ish curiosity; that it should set about to do so in such unseemly haste that between notes and novel (not to mention between the drafted and the printed page) what had been fiction becomes idle fact, invention history--disconcerting! Especially to a fictionist who, like yours truly, had long since turned his professional back on literary realism in favour of the fabulous irreal, and only in this latest enterprise had projected, not without misgiving, a detente with the realistic tradition. It is as if Reality, a mistress too long ignored, must now settle scores with her errant lover. — John Barth

He taught me things in the space of two minutes that the span of my lifetime did not. — Sally Thorne

I am a movie star. — Jayne Mansfield

I know people who are always freeriders and will never get into a fight. — Paul Singer