William Hughes Mearns Quotes
As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.
William Hughes Mearns
Quotes to Explore
-
The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
-
When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.
Hank Azaria
-
Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.
Dan Gilbert
-
When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away. Only when I give something that does not grow within me do I deplete myself and harm the other as well, for only harm can come from a gift that is forced, inorganic, unreal.
Parker Palmer
-
The attempt to live by the reality of our own nature, which means our limits as well as our potentials, is a profoundly moral regimen.
Parker Palmer
-
What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
-
Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli
-
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
Albert Einstein
-
On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what's on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.
Laeta Kalogridis
-
In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.
Matt Taibbi
-
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
Bodhidharma
-
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.
Pope Benedict XVI
-
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
-
No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.
Aristotle
-
"Don't trust metaphors," the wombat snorted. "If you let things start claiming to mean other things, there's no limit on how many things they can mean!"
Catherynne M. Valente
-
For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
Gary Bauer
-
It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf.
Walter Hagen
-
As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.
William Hughes Mearns
