Reality Quotes

A lot of guys just got off the flight yesterday. There's no excuses but that's the reality.

What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?

Reality, while generally probable, is not always interesting.

The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It's kleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy.

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong.

Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.

Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today, worse, it has largely congealed into a political religion. . .

A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

My time in Moscowmade a man of memade me an artistthere was a reality and a brutality of life that I think was very important, as a young American, for me to see.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

The one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know.

There are realities about what it is to be a woman in this world that are born from social convention. No matter how far away you are from civilization, you can't fully get away from that.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time.

Long ago I dreamed of being a hero in your company" Halli said Huskily "I'm sorry to say your reality disappoints me

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.

Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

We had to move forward after the war and see the realities.

No amount of success - whatever that means, quote-unquote success - no amount of success replaces the reality of being separated from my family for this long.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

... but a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism.

No-one has held back. They have put some definition around the numbers and now we have to wait for the reality.

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when in reality we were in search of free candy.

Direct cinema is about simulating a reality in which you're not having the overwhelming influence that you really are having.

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.