Reality Quotes

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

Reality is a powerful solvent.

It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

Badlands, you got to live it everyday, let the broken hearts stand as the price you've got to pay.

Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.

Reality is only possible if you are in the realm of joy.

When you become thoughtless, then you can see, feel Reality.

She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.

We covered so much ground on Thursday night that it took us half and hour. I'm not trying to look for excuses but that's the reality.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

We want people to go to the movies. But the reality is that this is a digital world and we have to adapt to that reality.

Grab reality by the balls and squeeze.

Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

We urge you to understand the Palestinian reality, and not to rush in and impose conditions and demands that ignore this reality and increase the suffering of the people.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

When we start to heal and perceive what I call love consciousness, we begin to perceive reality.

It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.

To share your spiritual self or grounding with anyone brings about a reality that must assert itself.

One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.).

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

One and all have to face reality now.

Not sure how I feel about reality. I'm going to begin purchasing stuffed animals and endowing them with the qualities people in my life lack.

There definitely is an appearance issue, ... Now whether or not there's a reality issue, I don't know.

Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.

One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality. The person he believes himself to be is a bad dream.

The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities of a cruel age.

I think aerials is designed for China and I'm happy to be the one to make this a reality.

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

Somehow it all got too out of hand, too complicated for a simple man. Don't want to have to pick and choose, hey, look at all these things I'll never use.

Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.

In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

True marketing starts...with the customer, his demographics, his realities, his needs, his values. It does not ask, "What do we want to sell?" It asks, "What does the customer want to buy?"