Reality Quotes

The Little Guy, behind whom politicians strategically coalesce — thumping majorities prevail in a democracy — cannot abide by a reality in which greater wealth affords greater "access."

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

In reality, on the grand scale, in my opinion... we are actually all responsible for each other.

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

Once you acknowledge that reality is not your enemy, it will no longer be your enemy.

It always feels good to tell you the truth. If I can't share it with you, it feels like it didn't happen.

There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.

The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.

As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also - magical religion.

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.

Without time,” the angel said, “you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity.” “FYI, philosophy bores me.” “Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

It's always good to be working.

We've all got the blood on our hands, we only receive what we demand.

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

Devotion means your limited entity has been dissolved; a much larger possibility has become a living reality for you.

I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.

The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough.

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

We must take our friends as they are.

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work

They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.

The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.

I believe our techno-zealotry will be moderated by sheer circumstance. We will do what reality compels us to do, not necessarily what our fantasies propose.

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries.

Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.

There's no doubt that we have, as we always do in the nation, reacted to the reality of 911 here in the country as an aviation incident. There are other vulnerabilities to be dealt with.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

We face now an era where we're going to be fighting the terrorist threat. I mean, that's simply a reality we are going to have to address that one.

Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.

In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice.