Actual Quotes

Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security.

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

So the actual privilege is that you can then take time off - and if you don't, you're a fool. You're earning all this money to support children whom you then don't see, which is absurd.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.

The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.

We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.