"See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part."

-- Lauryn Hill

#Reality Quotes #People Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.”
“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”
“She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet was the night Softer than satin was the light From the stars She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet were her eyes Warmer than May her tender sighs”
“In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother That folks got taking me for him And each for one another. For one of us was born a twin And not a soul knew which. . . .”

Source : Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.9
“James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity.”
“All I'd ever heard my entire life in my family was, "Nobody wanted you, and we took you in." When you get that into your head at a tender age, you really feel like you are an unlovable human being, and then you behave like one. That's exactly what I had done. It took me many years to deal with my own violence and find my own niche.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.”

Source : Sharon M. Draper (2012). “Out of My Mind”, p.295, Simon and Schuster
“I haven't been a leader -- not at all.”

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