Reality Quotes

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24?

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

Reality is a fragile thing.

People think they need to be at a ski-inski-out resort, but the reality is it's not such a big deal to jump on a shuttle.

The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own.

Oil runs America and it's the sad reality.

I had a lot of fun [on The Voice] and I learned a whole lot about reality TV, for one, and how they kind of use the artists as characters to make a hit TV show.

I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I've taken a little beating behind it.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed.

Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.

The map appears to us more real than the land.

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.

Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.

Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent.

Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship with Christ is the freedom that people are looking for in alcohol and drugs.

The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.

I think the only thing that we even have a small tangent of reality or truth about is right now - the moment that is happening right this second. Everything else is up for grabs.

I want to support the view that the foundation of reality itself is a unified, indeterminate maze of possibilities.

Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.

Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.

No reality has the power to dispel a dream.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.

If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality.

The reality is we are still ranked 10th and we are playing a team ranked second in the world who are playing at the top of their game and are at home.

Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are.

An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.

The more tightly you cling to your faith, the looser your grip is on reality.

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

I think it's a lot easier to put together a reality show than to actually create a scripted show.