Joseph Conrad Quotes

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad

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• Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Fear

• Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Reality
  • You
  • Perfect

• That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Military

• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• Tone matters more than words.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Words
  • Matters
  • Tone

• I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Space

• I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Words

• Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Words
  • Speak
  • Donation

• I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Women
  • Done
  • Together

• I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Great
  • Words

• What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Good
  • Words
  • Unique

• The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Reality
  • You
  • Guilty

• I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Bad
  • Reality

• In wartime Shanghai I saw so many horrors … Civilised life is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is, we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • Reality

• It is the fallacy of all intellectuals to believe that intellect can grasp life. It cannot, because it works in terms of symbols and language. There is another factor involved: consciousness. If the flame of consciousness is low, a symbol has no power to evoke reality, and intellect is helpless.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Power

• We don't need any more reality TV, women yelling at each other. I can't watch that stuff.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Women
  • Reality

• There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.

  

  Jared Padalecki
  • Time
  • Words
  • Baby

• Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

  

  Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Women
  • Words

• War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

  

  David Hackworth
  • War
  • Reality

• The reality is that you think you're going to have all this time out here, to do all this stuff, and the truth of the matter is, you just don't. If we're on the road, and we stay in the city we're in, I'm going to try to get up in the morning and get a workout in.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Up
  • Time
  • Truth

• The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Lost

• What happens at 90 is that I don't walk so good, my eyes are going, I can't hear well, and I'm getting all of the 90s residuals.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Good
  • Eyes

• I always thought that I played better when I was the captain. If you look at my record during the six years I was captain - except for a couple of series - I did very well.

  

  Mohammad Azharuddin
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Record

• Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

  

  Joseph Conrad
  • Reality
  • Words
  • Foes