Actual Quotes - page 7

when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed. (David Levithan)
It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones. View quote
Dorothy Dix
Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have..." or "Sorry, but I just didn't..." They apologize while telling you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology. View quote
E. Lockhart
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. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were betraying the class struggle. There are many poignant writings in which feminists first write pages about their class standpoint before getting to their actual issue. What was then known as class warfare is today called anti-racism. The threat of being accused of racism gave birth to false tolerance. View quote
Alice Schwarzer
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves. View quote
Kenneth Branagh
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between. View quote
Lev Grossman
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. View quote
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. View quote
Don Herold
Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting. (Ann Brashares)
In actual life I am a grumpy old bag. View quote
Dawn French
The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%. View quote
Taylor Lautner
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself. View quote
Shane MacGowan
I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label. View quote
Helen Reddy
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. View quote
Saul Williams
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. View quote
A. R. Ammons
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers. View quote
Brooke Langton
All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene. View quote
Christopher Darden
I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling. (David Coverdale)
If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out. View quote
David Strathairn
Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything. View quote
Dweezil Zappa
I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse. View quote
Edgar Wright
My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations. View quote
Fritz Kreisler