Quotes About Losing Grip On Reality

#1. They could see from the start that Wilson's idea sat somewhere near the border between possible and hopeless - but on which side of the border?

James Gleick

#2. What is a budget review? A personal review with numbers

Jack Welch

#3. I never want to be called a 'good loser.' Show me a good loser and I'll just show you a loser.

Stu Ungar

#4. Just as books are read one word at a time, roads are taken one step at a time.

Xinran

#5. We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

H. Rap Brown

#6. I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Rod Taylor

#7. There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

Charles Guggenheim

#8. His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

Ann Brashares

#9. You are blessed doublee if you are in love ...

Honeya

#10. I have a personal trainer who comes over at least four times a week and kicks my butt. I get so sore that I can't even walk.

Eva Longoria

#11. Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have been at the time they occured.

Tom Perrotta

#12. Well, it is not a good world
nobody can say that it is, save those who wilfully blind themselves to facts. How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star? The wonder is not that it is so bad, but that there should be any good left in it.

H. Rider Haggard

#13. Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

W. Somerset Maugham

#14. Soviet moviegoers gazed enviously on the jalopy that took the Joads from Oklahoma to California. The message Russians took from 'The Grapes of Wrath': even the poorest capitalists have cars!

Richard Corliss