Quotes About Hyperreality

#1. Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

Izaak Walton

#2. O how feeble is man's power,
That if good fortune fall,
Cannot add another hour,
Nor a lost hour recall!
But come bad chance,
And we join to'it our strength,
And we teach it art and length,
Itself o'er us to'advance.

John Donne

#3. For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

Thomas Mann

#4. Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

#5. Not that complicated. I think I'm in love with you, Essie. But I also think you're not ready. I shouldn't have sprung it on you like that, so I decided to take it at your speed.

R.C. Lewis

#6. I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.

Lady Gaga

#7. He wasn't good with this sort of thing - with the back-and-forth dance between man and woman. He wasn't even sure if they were dancing, or if she was merely being polite.

Courtney Milan

#8. Reagan's easy slippage between movies and reality is synechdochic for a political culture increasingly impervious to distinctions between fiction and history.

Michael Rogin

#9. Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.

Booker Little

#10. People are so ready to think themselves changed when it is only their mood that is changed. Those who are good-tempered because it is a fine day will be ill-tempered when it rains: their selves are just the same both days; only in one case the fine weather has got into them, in the other the rainy.

George MacDonald

#11. When you run any organisation, you have to look as far down the road as you can.

Alex Ferguson