Top 100 In Actual Quotes

#1. I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

Joan Collins

In Actual Quotes #27715
#2. Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

Samuel Butler

In Actual Quotes #40737
#3. In Actual
Human Rights are
"caring" for Humans left on the planet

Haider Ali

In Actual Quotes #45154
#4. But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.

Aldous Huxley

In Actual Quotes #55101
#5. We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

Saint Basil

In Actual Quotes #61344
#6. I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.

Anurag Kashyap

In Actual Quotes #129071
#7. Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not ... All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

Yves Klein

In Actual Quotes #135674
#8. Panic might feel like a bad thing, but in actual fact, it contains thousands of little splinters of hope. When panic is gone, it usually means that those splinters are gone too.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

In Actual Quotes #148430
#9. We are inclined to think that everything that happens is to be turned into useful teaching. In actual fact, it is to be turned into something even better than teaching, namely, character. The mountaintop is not meant to teach us anything, it is meant to make us something.

Oswald Chambers

In Actual Quotes #175907
#10. It is obvious we are fighting for the Air France Group ... But in actual fact, we are also fighting for France.

Christian Blanc

In Actual Quotes #237416
#11. What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that the dream of democratic socialism is inferior to the dream of democratic capitalism, and that the latter's superiority in actual practice is undeniable.

Michael Novak

In Actual Quotes #280566
#12. I mean, I'm a war baby, and we had rationing, and we didn't have sugar and sweets, which is very good for you in actual fact. Because when we had a piece of fruit, we'd gulp it down. It was just great.

Joan Collins

In Actual Quotes #306837
#13. The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

Sigmund Freud

In Actual Quotes #322007
#14. So in actual fact every human being is equally wealthy according to God's divine Providence

Sunday Adelaja

In Actual Quotes #332449
#15. There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.

Octavius Winslow

In Actual Quotes #382762
#16. A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.

Alain De Botton

In Actual Quotes #387103
#17. The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.

B.F. Skinner

In Actual Quotes #437230
#18. Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.

James Madison

In Actual Quotes #444609
#19. People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

P. J. O'Rourke

In Actual Quotes #473215
#20. To be a winner in actual you need to be a winner from thoughts first.

Deepak Burfiwala

In Actual Quotes #549139
#21. I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.

Joss Whedon

In Actual Quotes #557257
#22. Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

Michel Foucault

In Actual Quotes #579830
#23. But dispelling this dread isn't a matter of trying to forget about washing dishes, it is realizing that in actual fact you only have one dish to wash, ever: this one; only one step to take, ever: this one. And that is Zen.

Alan W. Watts

In Actual Quotes #622975
#24. Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Thomas S. Monson

In Actual Quotes #629340
#25. The same distinction marks off Tragedy from Comedy; for Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. III

Aristotle.

In Actual Quotes #645275
#26. In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

Dawn French

In Actual Quotes #662366
#27. We know about the issue of children being sold and adopted and taken away but what is so extraordinary is how these two people come through something like - how both of them do, in actual fact. I think that she's one of the most considerable people I've ever met, Philomena.

Judi Dench

In Actual Quotes #748071
#28. Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Carl Jung

In Actual Quotes #754061
#29. It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

Paul Weyrich

In Actual Quotes #770504
#30. Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it. It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping in ...

Edgar Berman

In Actual Quotes #797858
#31. What we receive from God always seems to be too little for us; we get the impression that He isn't answering us. But in actual fact God always answers our prayers

Sunday Adelaja

In Actual Quotes #804988
#32. In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world.

Valerie Solanas

In Actual Quotes #830465
#33. The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation.

Bill Cosby

In Actual Quotes #851667
#34. People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

John McWhorter

In Actual Quotes #853701
#35. Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

Robert Walser

In Actual Quotes #866064
#36. Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

Peter Weir

In Actual Quotes #910374
#37. If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.

Miyamoto Musashi

In Actual Quotes #927568
#38. Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

In Actual Quotes #929024
#39. In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

Max Frisch

In Actual Quotes #936758
#40. Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.

Tom Robbins

In Actual Quotes #961303
#41. An apparently good way to get more information about religious group would be through the media. In actual fact, it's probably the worst. Why? Because what makes hot news stories are things like controversy, opposing views, harm, blood, sex, big names, big money, scandal, ect.

Stan Koehler

In Actual Quotes #975030
#42. People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

F Scott Fitzgerald

In Actual Quotes #999847
#43. At times of great emotion, good or bad, I find I am gone, somewhere else, watching it happen to me, a different me. I miss a lot of my own life, my own moments, because I step outside myself. I feel it all more in retrospect than in actual time.

Rosie O'Donnell

In Actual Quotes #1004988
#44. In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

Gore Vidal

In Actual Quotes #1041529
#45. In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first step forward in faith.

August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

In Actual Quotes #1057649
#46. Locker rooms are not, in actual fact, the secret clubhouses of the Effortlessly Thin Women's Fat-Lady Harassment Society.

Hanne Blank

In Actual Quotes #1062566
#47. Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting

Bruce Willis

In Actual Quotes #1079448
#48. We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.

Kim Il-sung

In Actual Quotes #1088292
#49. In actual pieces of music, the pitches of a chord may be duplicated and heard in many different octaves depending on the number and type of instruments playing.

Jonathan Peters

In Actual Quotes #1093502
#50. He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

Sun Tzu

In Actual Quotes #1097551
#51. Nothing is more harmful to the world than a martial art that is not effective in actual self-defense.

Motobu Choki

In Actual Quotes #1130457
#52. If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, than capitalism is not long for this world.

David Harvey

In Actual Quotes #1146465
#53. My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

In Actual Quotes #1147758
#54. In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

Aldous Huxley

In Actual Quotes #1169008
#55. He was looking at me like I was a puzzle to be solved, like he couldn't believe the music was coming from my hands. When in actual fact, it wasn't coming from my hands at all. It was coming from my heart. And

N.R. Walker

In Actual Quotes #1193160
#56. Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.

Watchman Nee

In Actual Quotes #1216573
#57. Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

Peter Drucker

In Actual Quotes #1254482
#58. The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.

Christopher Morley

In Actual Quotes #1260426
#59. In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.

Epictetus

In Actual Quotes #1309579
#60. Only man can be an enemy for man; only he can rob him of the meaning of his acts and his life because it also belongs only to him alone to confirm it in its existence, to recognize it in actual fact as a freedom

Simone De Beauvoir

In Actual Quotes #1310648
#61. Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

In Actual Quotes #1315071
#62. I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

Sam Riley

In Actual Quotes #1318346
#63. In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to an extent that makes him the sole ruler of this earth ... Therefore, first struggle and then perhaps pacifism.

Adolf Hitler

In Actual Quotes #1337674
#64. Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Aristotle.

In Actual Quotes #1345306
#65. People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless.

Pandita Ramabai

In Actual Quotes #1356623
#66. My victims never knew what was going to happen to them. I've had shooting, knifings, strangulations, beatings, and I've participated in actual crucifixions of humans. All across the country, there's people just like me, who set out to destroy life.

Henry Lee Lucas

In Actual Quotes #1360269
#67. Sabbath is a way of life (Heb 4:3; 9-11). It is simply "casting all your anxiety on Him," to find that in actual fact " He cares for you" (1 Peter 5:7). It is USING the keys to the Kingdom to receive the resources for abundant living and ministering.

Dallas Willard

In Actual Quotes #1401109
#68. When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.

Noel Fisher

In Actual Quotes #1408570
#69. The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

Reid Hoffman

In Actual Quotes #1412957
#70. Those who shoot in competition seem to have a remarkably high hit potential and survival ratio in actual gunfights.

Massad Ayoob

In Actual Quotes #1444448
#71. In actual
fact, it is the State, i.e., the taxpayer who has become responsible
to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State pays for the
blunders of private enterprise Profit is private and individual.
Loss is public and social.

Gaetano Salvemini

In Actual Quotes #1447223
#72. I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.

Edward Hirsch

In Actual Quotes #1496307
#73. I waver - in the dark - between the observation (but is it entirely accurate?) that I'm unhappy only by moments, by jerks and surges, sporadically, even if such spasms are close together - and the conviction that deep down, in actual fact, I am continually, all the time, unhappy since maman's death.

Roland Barthes

In Actual Quotes #1506999
#74. People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.

Kate Williams

In Actual Quotes #1553326
#75. In actual practice, someone is regarded as being "too liberal" if his conscience permits something that my conscience does not permit.

Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

In Actual Quotes #1604731
#76. In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.

Lauren Bacall

In Actual Quotes #1611685
#77. The ordinary American is the opposite of a cynic. He is on the average more of a believer and a defender of the faith in humanity than the rest of the Occidentals. It is a relatively important matter to him to be true to his own ideals and to carry them out in actual life.

Gunnar Myrdal

In Actual Quotes #1672651
#78. Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In Actual Quotes #1731194
#79. In most cases, it is more satisfying to get a friend's answering machine and leave a cheery, tangible trace of your sincere commitment to the friendship than it is to engage in actual conversation.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

In Actual Quotes #1750907
#80. It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

In Actual Quotes #1756117
#81. Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

Phyllis Schlafly

In Actual Quotes #1770069
#82. I an not saying that religious ideas are nothing but a cover for political motives [...]. Instead, I intend to show that religious insights and moral choices, in actual experience, coincide with practical ones.

Elaine Pagels

In Actual Quotes #1792673
#83. Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.

Benito Mussolini

In Actual Quotes #1795341
#84. [A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact, experienced.

Edmund Crispin

In Actual Quotes #1844276
#85. Everything that we have in actual fact does not belong to us, but to God.

Sunday Adelaja

In Actual Quotes #1874876
#86. Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag
they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.

Bill Maher

In Actual Quotes #245
#87. Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Nelson Mandela

In Actual Quotes #3158
#88. In his greediness, he counts all that he has clutched as nothing in comparison with what is beyond his grasp, and loses all pleasure in his actual possessions by longing after what he has not, yet covets.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

In Actual Quotes #3414
#89. All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

Zadie Smith

In Actual Quotes #3667
#90. My videos are coming from the perspective of someone who bought the device, used it and is giving impressions on the actual usage. Sometimes 2 different behind-the-scenes engienering decisions will yield the same user experience, in which case I won't even mention it.

Marques Brownlee

In Actual Quotes #4883
#91. Actual places, landscapes that exist[ed] simultaneously in both physical and metaphysical space ... true geographical refugia, verdant valleys dominated by protective mountain deities where people could seek solace as lonely pilgrims, or flee violence as a community in time of war.

Wade Davis

In Actual Quotes #6540
#92. Lynching's legacy, though, is also evident today in law enforcement's freedom from accountability in the shooting of black and other youth of color, thus displaying a de facto, and often actual, legalization of white supremacist killing of black life.

Mark Lewis Taylor

In Actual Quotes #11590
#93. In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Roman Jakobson

In Actual Quotes #11849
#94. In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

Thomas Carlyle

In Actual Quotes #15698
#95. The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.

Claude Levi-Strauss

In Actual Quotes #22079
#96. The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

Hjalmar Branting

In Actual Quotes #23381
#97. in simple terms, what you perceive as real, is actually a neurological reconstruction or simulation of the actual real thing. It's not as simple as saying, we see as it is. Actually we do not ever see as it is.

Abhijit Naskar

In Actual Quotes #25278
#98. We're in the business not so much of being contrarians deliberately, but rather we like to take perceived risk instead of actual risk. And what I mean by that is that you get paid for taking a risk that people think is risky, you particularly don't get paid for taking actual risk.

Wilbur Ross

In Actual Quotes #27618
#99. I always plan the whole story in some detail, long before I start writing the actual thing. But even doing that, I find that there is plenty of room for spontaneity. Often the characters will lead the story off in a direction I hadn't originally intended!

Raymond Buckland

In Actual Quotes #29374
#100. Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:
It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

In Actual Quotes #34213

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