I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.
I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.
The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
A focus on people's health and well-being must be the core of family planning research and policy. This may seem self-evident, but the realities of program implementation in third world countries has often shown that the health and well-being of individuals is not a priority.
All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.
Thought is not reality; yet it is through Thought that our realities are created.
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a movement must appropriate the green agenda. Sustainability has to become the foundation of all our pursuits. This movement is my dream and vision. The left remains strong in Malta, but stronger it will become if we have the courage to unite and dream.
We were brought up in a world which was based on Aristotle. Science-wise and everything, that's really quite exciting and you learn a lot. There was one problem: there were parallel realities. And in a parallel reality, there's always one reality that's the prime and the second is always a secondary. And everything's a reflection of something else.
Those who wait for the future to happen before aligning their educational goals with the new realities will be left behind in the new ecomomy. A better path is to know what is ahead and prepare-this is education.
Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.
What is life without incompatible realities?
We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair. . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities. . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.
Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.
Part of what we have to do is not just keep ignorant people away from the polls. We have to actually change the structural realities that make people make bad choices beyond their ignorance or what have you.
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.