In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.
‐‐ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.
‐‐ Christina Hoff Sommers
In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
‐‐ Eugenio Montale
In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.
‐‐ Robert Winston
In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They're the content, the day-to-day: work, life. But people are sensitive to national rights.
‐‐ Ayman Odeh
In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.
‐‐ Bill McKibben
In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.
‐‐ Lois Capps
In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi
In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.
‐‐ John Dobbin
In reality, for me every role is completely different.
‐‐ Hugh Dancy
In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
‐‐ Carla Bruni
In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
‐‐ Victoria de los Angeles
In reality, I never want to grow up.
‐‐ Michael Jordan
In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
‐‐ Zach McGowan
In reality, if there are 200 people commenting on something online, it's less than a grain of salt in a huge beach of humanity - who cares?
‐‐ Suki Waterhouse
In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
‐‐ B. H. Liddell Hart
In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.
‐‐ Penn Jillette
In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.
‐‐ Robert Reich
In reality most people aren't as perfect as they want to seem.
‐‐ Susanne Bier
In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.
‐‐ Bruno Tonioli
In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they have generated on the site and export it elsewhere.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
‐‐ Peter McWilliams
In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
‐‐ Pat Brown
In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell
In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.
‐‐ Phil Donahue
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
‐‐ Henri Bergson
In reality, the pioneers of this transformation of the indigenous Zapatista woman are a merit of the women insurgents.
‐‐ Subcomandante Marcos
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
‐‐ Breyten Breytenbach
In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
‐‐ Louis de Bernieres
In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.
‐‐ Michael Jai White
In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
‐‐ Al Goldstein
In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin
In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
‐‐ Pat Brown
In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
‐‐ Rani Mukerji
In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.
‐‐ Leigh Steinberg
In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl
In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
‐‐ Damon Lindelof
In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us or hold her own in basketball or hit a softball - but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls.
‐‐ George Vecsey
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
‐‐ John Boyd Orr
In recent years, America's wealthiest man has begun to tackle energy issues in a major way, investing millions in everything from high-capacity batteries to machines that can scrub carbon dioxide out of the air. With a personal fortune of $50 billion, Gates has the resources to give his favorite solutions a major boost.
‐‐ Jeff Goodell
In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.
‐‐ Charlton Heston
In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.
‐‐ Jean-Marie Le Pen
In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.
‐‐ Peter DeFazio
In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
‐‐ Ted Allen
In recent years, I've begun the year by driving across France to the Alps, abandoning the January gloom for Alpine winter sun, even if the ski-goggles do give you panda marks when you get a tan. As a child, I was always a bit of a billygoat when I'd go camping with my mates in North Wales, around Snowdonia.
‐‐ Paul Hollywood
In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.
‐‐ Richard Ernst
In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.
‐‐ Bob Ney