Reality Quotes

So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

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.

Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!

I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

We all know what we mean by fighting terrorism. In reality, there is total cooperation between the countries north and south of the Mediterranean against terrorism.

Enforcement alone does not work. Unless we address the gap between our immigration laws and reality, illegal immigration will not stop and the situation on the border will continue to be chaotic.

Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience.

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.

To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it

If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.

Celebrate what is possible. Your beliefs will create your reality.

We must acquaint the youth to the realities of the world... we must tell them that millions of people around the world have no access to drinking water.

The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.

I think the media has done a good job portraying him being a bad person, when in reality he's not.

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet.

The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.

The reality, or substance, of professional wrestling is the ability to perpetuate a fantasy. I never distinguished between fantasy and reality. I made my fantasy reality for over 60 years.

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.

Reality in strong doses frightens.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.

In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

There's no such thing as a short review. It will take a long time to get it started. That's the reality. And it will be probably even longer to complete it.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.

Our difficulties launch us into new states of consciousness where we are inspired to step out of the reality of our smallest thoughts and step into the limitless freedom of our biggest dreams.

You have to learn how to stay in a good mood as you overthrow the sour, puckered hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as reality.

I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.