Reality Quotes
We recognize the reality of the marketplace. We're fighting to win, and that's what we're going to do. This is not the time to hide.
The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They’re out of control and have been for some time.
We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very sobering for everybody. I don't take this lightly at all not at all.
It's a dream of mine. I worked very, very hard for many years. But the reality is, it's slow coming ... I think we're still a generation away from that.
Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.
The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.
I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.
Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me.
Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?
You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.
What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?
Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?
It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.
Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.
Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.
When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.
...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.
The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.
Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.
With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.
That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.