Realidad Quotes

#1. At the heart of the American paradigm is the perception that law and its agents . . . police officers, correctional officers, attorneys and judges . . . are color-blind and thus justice is impartial, objective and seeks la verdad (the truth). But, la realidad (reality) differs.

Martin Guevara Urbina

#2. There are no defenders of man's mind - in the world's greatest scientific-technological civilization. All that is left is a battle between the mystics of spirit and the mystics of muscle - between men guided by their feelings and men guided by their reflexes.

Ayn Rand

#3. I don't really dress up for Halloween.

Katharine McPhee

#4. Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

Kenneth Koch

#5. Ten minutes later she'd swore that she was never going to eat another Butterfinger candy bar as long as she lived and that if Danny Jenkins tried to show her his baby maker that she was going to hit him in the head with a stick. Thankfully

R.L. Mathewson

#6. Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.

Ridley Scott

#7. Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.

Anagarika Govinda

#8. It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#9. Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

Franz Grillparzer

#10. And everyone who teaches about slavery knows a little dirty secret that reveals historians' collective failure: many African-American students struggle with a sense of shame that most of their ancestors could not escape the suffering they experienced.

Edward E. Baptist

#11. I've always felt happy in my own company. It's only when I get around other people that things get sticky.

Helen Oyeyemi

#12. It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Herbert Hoover

#13. It wasn't the quick peck Nate had given her. It wasn't like anything she'd ever felt before. His fingers brushed her jaw, settling on the pulse at her throat. The kiss was soft, sweet, almost unbearably perfect.

Elle Todd

#14. Without love we fall ill.

Sigmund Freud