Reality Quotes

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

I never thought I would have an opportunity to act in the United States, and continue to expand my career outside of Europe. To be honest, my reality is bigger than I would have ever dared to dream.

There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses.

All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.

... there are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in the Christ event/redemption and creation.

Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a human being can imagine.

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality.

It was a pretty good year for predators.

They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.

It's never too late to realize your ambitions. Take the first step by daring to dream big dreams. Then have the confidence to take a few risks and make those dreams a reality. You'll be glad you did.

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?

Anticipation almost always exceeds the reality of that which we anticipated.

We started the season off really hot, then we had some ups and downs. You can't have a season where it's perfect. It's what you want but in reality it's not going to happen all the time.

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.

Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.

Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness of this moment. You can argue with it, but that's suffering.

The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.

[Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there.

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

It's a reality check. These other countries took it seriously. You have to realize that other countries play the game and that anything can happen in a three-game series. It's do, or die.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.

A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.

We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward.

Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

I want to show you that you can leap tall buildings, walk through walls, and change reality.

Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire

I credit my mom Debbie for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality so I could avoid falling into the normal pitfalls of child actors.

I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.

The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.

One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.