Ernest Bramah Quotes

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.

Ernest Bramah

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• If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• 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

• A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • People
  • Reality
  • Author

• I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Me

• Thought makes reality.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Reality
  • Thought
  • Makes

• I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Happy
  • Reality
  • Happiness

• I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • Time
  • Think

• Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Pain

• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Reality
  • Made
  • Many

• And who would deny the intellect and will of girls? That would be questioning their full humanity. On the average, abstract and mere intellectual activity is not suitable for them; they want to understand reality completely, and they want to comprehend not merely with the intellect but also with the heart.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Humanity

• There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Reality
  • Universe
  • Bird

• It is not in the premise that reality Is a solid. It may be a shade that traverses A dust, a force that traverses a shade.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • May
  • 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

• The Chinese authorities think of artists as prostitutes. And in reality it’s true: in the Communist system artists just represent what the power structure seeks them to represent. It is prostitution.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Power
  • True
  • Reality

• Canada now calls itself an 'emerging energy superpower.' In reality, it is nothing more than a Third World energy supermarket.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • World
  • Reality
  • Energy

• We dedicate this day to all the heroes and heroines in this country and the rest of the world who sacrificed in many ways and surrendered their lives so that we could be free. Their dreams have become reality. Freedom is their reward.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • World
  • Country
  • Free

• When I first came into the business, I had to, for the sake of being able to sell myself as an artist, always be happy and jovial and smiling. I was the happy nice girl, and I am the happy nice girl, but I have my moments, too.

  

  Kelly Price
  • Business
  • Happy
  • Girl

• I thoroughly disapprove of duels. I consider them unwise and I know they are dangerous. Also, sinful. If a man should challenge me now I would go to that man and take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet retired spot and kill him.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Hand
  • Challenge

• Like men in his position throughout history, Kingsley Pryor did nothing as events swept him to their conclusion; simply waiting and praying that a magical third option would spring from nowhere.

  

  Peter F. Hamilton
  • Men
  • History
  • Waiting

• I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Age
  • Politics
  • Perfection

• He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.

  

  Ernest Bramah
  • Reality
  • Raising
  • Digging