“There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might sound like semantics, but I promise it will bring whatever you want to accomplish much closer to becoming a reality.” ThinkingWayWantI CanRealityMightSoundBecomingPromiseAccomplishI PromiseSemantics Author:Maynard Webb
“The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.” WorldGivingFeelsMindHeartFeelingsRealityEyeLandPromiseFutureDifficultyDuesFixedOur ThoughtsThoughts And FeelingsLooking Away Author:Augustus William Hare
“I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.” ThinkingChildrenDifferentDreamRealityPromiseFameComplainingIt Is What It Is Author:Rosie O'Donnell
“Plans turn promises into results and dreams into realities.” DreamRealityTurnsCultureResultsPlansPromiseService CultureDream Reality Author:Ron Kaufman
“[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.” MadeRealityReligionNextPoliticsPresidentLeadershipPolicyPromiseStrategyIdeologyVotingPresident ObamaFree SpeechMessiah Author:Barbara Walters
“The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways.” WayRealityDesirePromiseProfoundConnectedCosmosAstrology Author:Carl Sagan
“I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because of its infinite promise. Justice can triumph, wrongs can be righted, and pain can be alleviated, if the right fix is found. The optimistic illusion that one can change the world is difficult to resist, especially when from time to time that illusion is sustained by even a hint of reality. Change does happen in the political process.” IfsWorldDoeFeelingsRealityHappensPainPoliticalFoundPoliticsProcessDifficultJusticePromiseIllusionInfiniteDisappointmentOptimisticTriumphChanging The WorldAgain And AgainHintsShortcomingsPolitical LifeAmbivalence Author:Madeleine M. Kunin
“He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.” MenDreamRealityReligionImaginationVisionAtheismStageHigherInvolvedPromiseGod LoveEcstasyKill MeGreat HopeNovices Author:Voltaire
“I was never a prisoner of any theory. What guided me were reason and reality. The acid test I applied to every theory or scheme was: Would it work? The acid test is in performance, not promises. It is not from weakness that one commands respect. As long as the leaders take care of their people, they will obey the leaders.” PeopleLongReasonRealityCareLeaderTheoryPromiseWeaknessTestsPerformancesTake CareCommandPrisonerSchemesAcid Author:Mr. Lee
“It was in grasping the reality of his divine parentage as a son of God, as well as his relationship with Christ and the promise of eternal life, that Moses was able to resist the challenge presented by Satan.” WellsRealityAbleChristChallengesDivineSonPromiseEternalSatanEternal LifeMosesGrasping Author:David S. Baxter
“We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.” BelieveRealityAmericaBeliefVisionPositivePromiseOne DayGapsVisions Of The Future Author:Barbara Jordan
“We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.” ChildrenRealityGovernmentPromiseDemand Author:Shakira
“Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.” MadeSometimesBigsRealityRunningImaginationTechnologyPromiseAweRunning AwayFar AwayRobotsRoboticsAwe Inspiring Author:Daniel H. Wilson
“Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she could have been there for any number of diagnoses, and wasn't. Even her promises to visit more often have faded away with Christmas. It's her turn to taste some reality.” Has BeensRealityFacesTurnsNumbersPromiseTasteBonesCrashCould Have BeenDiagnosisFadedMarrowTransplantsPunctureBone Marrow Author:Jenny Downham
“The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.” WayMomentsRealityNextDecisionWalksActingStepsPlansMovementPromiseObviousNakedRationalSecureDesertExplanationGuaranteesJustifyPresent MomentDiscernmentAmbiguityObscurityPilgrimNext StepsPredeterminedUndefined Author:Brennan Manning
“The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.” HeartMeanHas BeensRealityLastsDesireUniverseViewsSecretOur LivesDoorsAcceptancePromiseGloryLongingResponseStrangerPoint Of ViewTreatedWelcomeBridgesReportsRelevantKnockingAcknowledgmentChasmsDeep Desire Author:C. S. Lewis
“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.” RealityGriefYouthSorrowPromiseOffersSadThought ProvokingYouth Life Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.” MenLifeGivingHeartMeanLittlesMadeDifferentSoulRealityActionEffortBrainJudgingPromiseShapesPercentSilentFinalsNineLabelsAnalysisBeastNinetyTwistedWrapsWisestTotalitySeducingNinety NineLullsWisest ManWords Mean Nothing Author:Karen Marie Moning
“Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.” GivingFeelsSometimesDreamRealityNextWaitingPromiseGhostWakingSurroundingsManipulateReluctantResidual Author:Craig Thompson
“Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships that stand against the moon, their tale of distant nations. They are held out to say: We are alone. Come. And the voices say with them: We are your kinsmen. And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth... Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.” SoulRealityNationsBlackVoiceWhiteRaceCompanyAirYouthReadyArmsTerriblePromiseMoonConscienceEmbraceWingsTalesShipsWelcomeMy SoulEncountersTallSpellsThickShakingTall Ships Author:James Joyce
“For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.” WorldRealityImaginationRocksPromiseWingsFairyOutletsHintsIneffableReverieUnreality Book:(The Great Gatsby) Source: (The Great Gatsby)
“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.” RealityPromiseCommitment Author:Abraham Lincoln