Reality is frequently inaccurate.
- Douglas Adams
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
- Douglas Adams
Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.
- Scott Adams
Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren't even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
- Adyashanti
A good part of what appears to us - prima facie - as objective reality is, instead, just a consequence of our conventions to discover it.
- Felix Alba Juez
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Besides, reality is so much better than any fairytale.
- Monica Alexander
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
- Shana Alexander
I didn't like the endless gossiping or the constant complaints that they were victims of external factors. Somalis never said "Sorry" or "I made a mistake" or "I don't know": they invented excuses. All these group strategies to avoid confronting reality depressed me. Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
You always think another time would have been ideal for you... the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.
- Woody Allen
She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.
- Isabel Allende
I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
- Isabel Allende
Reality is always so obstructive.
- Eric Ambler
Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.
- Martin Amis
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
- W H Auden
Because I keep it real and reality is a ruthless bitch. Plus I wanna make money you cool with that? - Gable
- J M August
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.
- Will Christopher Baer
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
- J G Ballard
Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.
- J G Ballard
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
- J G Ballard
I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.
- Eric Bana
You look at me and tell me you think you're some goddamn obligation to me. You look at me and tell me that we're pretending when the connection between us is the most tangible, overpowering thing I've ever felt in my life. If this is pretending, then I damn sure don't want to know what reality is.
- Maya Banks
All reality is a game.
- Iain Banks
When you have once seen the chaos, you must make some thing to set between yourself and that terrible sight; and so you make a mirror, thinking that it shall be reflected the reality of the world; but then you understand that the mirror reflects only appearances, and that reality is somewhere else, off behind the mirror; and then you remember that behind the mirror there is only the chaos.
- John Banville
Not to mention, we're using you for bait. (Syn)
Are you that drunk? (Nykyrian)
What? I wasn't supposed to tell her that? (Syn)
I'm bait? (Kiara)
No, you're not bait. Ignore the alcoholic whose view of reality is distorted by his brain-damaged hallucinations. (Nykyrian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.
- Lewis Carroll
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
- Charles Baudelaire
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
- John Steinbeck
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
- Walter Benjamin
it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.
- Haruki Murakami
In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.
- Haruki Murakami
After I gave up sleeping, it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework.
Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.
- Haruki Murakami
Reality is the place we need to live, but our imaginations harbor the greatest places to visit!
- Giuseppe Bianco
They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.
- Kenneth Blackwell
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
- Michael Bloomberg
The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Knowing... that the struggle to create a different current reality is to no avail helps keep the attention present even when experience is painful.... the same wisdom that keeps the attention alert and present in painful circumstances includes the awareness... that human beings feel about things, that we lament or yearn or grieve even when we understand that things can't be different. [p. 33]
- Sylvia Boorstein
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
- Jorge Luis Borges
It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.
- Matthew Bourne
Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
- Julie Bowen
I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
- Julie Bowen
I don't want to base my life on a symbol," he said resolutely. "I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What's not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They're the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream.
- Gregory A Boyd
Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't actually see it or touch it. But to the Brahma, it simply doesn't exist the way the air and the earth, pain and loss do. To him, the banker's reality is folly. To the banker, the Brahma's ideas are as inconsequential as dust.
- Libba Bray
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
- Barbara Broccoli
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
- Harold Brodkey
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
- Dalai Lama
I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.
- Dalai Lama
Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.
- Dan Brown
Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.
- Nicholas Sparks
So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?
- Chuck Palahniuk
What if reality is nothing but some disease?
- Chuck Palahniuk
We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.
- Richard Burr
The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.
- Amir Butler
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
- Albert Einstein
Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.
- Orson Scott Card
It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.
- William James
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
- Anne Carson
Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.
- Paul Celan
Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.
- Paul Celan
Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?
- Geraldine Chaplin
I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.
- Stephen King
Reality is a sliding door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.
- Morris Chestnut
Downy feathers kiss your face and flutter everywhere.
Reality is a lovely place but I wouldn't want to live there.
- Owl City
There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.
- Louis L Amour
But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story..
- David Clement Davies
I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.
- Ernest Cline
I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.
- Hillary Clinton
Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly isand that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.
- Harlan Coben
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore
- Leonard Cohen
Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.
- David Levithan
Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
- Mason Cooley
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous.
- Henry David Thoreau
The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be - the more traditional view of the solar system still prevailed even among leading scientists. So it's hardly surprising that Galileo's Catholic judges had difficult accepting his views, especially when they saw themselves as defending scientific orthodoxy and were supported in this by the scientific establishment.
- Michael Coren
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
- Donald Knuth
The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up. That communication style becomes our normal way of dealing with issues, our blueprint for communication. It's what we know and pass on to our own children. We either become our childhood or we make a conscious choice to change it.
- Kristen Crockett
Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
- Russell Crowe
If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?
- Virginia Woolf
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.
- Mitch Daniels
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
- Sammy Davis Jr
You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.
- Artur Davis
Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
- Philip K Dick
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K Dick
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
- Philip K Dick
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
- Barry Diller
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
- Wilhelm Dilthey
We can find different reasons for which we human beings are here. Nonetheless, one thing is clear: besides clothing, eating, or health care, we also need at least three innermost elements to live. Those elements are faith, hope, and love. No matter the way we define those elements; their meaning in reality is worth.
- Isaias Doleo
Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Reality is infinitely diverse. It resists classification, inward life. Peculiar to us...not simply the official existence.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.
- Marcel Duchamp
Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life.
- Patty Duke
I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.
- Tony Dungy
To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.
- Courtney Thorne Smith
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
- Emile Durkheim
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.
- Lawrence Durrell
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26)
- Henry Miller
The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which they have made of life requires no decoration; it is essential that only the drains function adequately. Beauty, that feline beauty that has us by the balls in America, is finished.
- Henry Miller
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
- Henry Miller
The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.
- Kenneth Edmonds
Reality is inside the skull.
- George Orwell
Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.
- Jerome K Jerome
I'll tell you what's real. Real is that I was in jail for the past year, rooming with drug dealers and eating crap food your dog wouldn't touch. Real is not being able to wear your own frickin' underwear and showering with twenty-five other dicks every day while guards watch. Real is my next-door neighbor who walks like she's balancing on stilts because her leg is so fucked up from the accident. Brian, your perception of reality is totally off.
- Simone Elkeles
I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.
- Linda Ellerbee
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
- Ralph Ellison
The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.
- Jimmy Fallon
Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.
- Brett Favre
People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.
- Rio Ferdinand
No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.
- Rio Ferdinand
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.
- John Fiske
Reality is just a dream dreamed by everyone
- Fola
Yet 'Reality' is just whatever illusion we believe in
- Fola
The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
- Harold Ford
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.
- Paulo Freire
Reality is an acquired taste.
- Robert Fritz
Reality is a fragile thing.
- Cornelia Funke
The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
- Lady Gaga
There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.
- Neil Gaiman
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.
- George R R Martin
If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
- Eckhart Tolle
Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.
- John Garamendi
Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.
- Jorge Garcia
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
- Romain Gary
The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever its comforts for those afraid reality is going to go away unless we believe very hard in it, not conduced to much in the way of clarity in the anti-relativist discussion, but merely to far too many people spending far too much time describing at length what it is they do not maintain than seems in any way profitable.
- Clifford Geertz
Reality is such an elusive concept.
- Laura Gilfillan
Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.
- Rob Glaser
Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
- Jean Luc Godard
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.
- Thaddeus Golas
Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.
- Terry Goodkind
Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.
- Paul Goodman
When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.
- Erin Gray
Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.
- Tom Robbins
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.
- Tom Robbins
The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.
- Tom Robbins
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.
- Tom Robbins
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr Seuss
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
- Alex Haley
When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere somehow, men must find refuge. Then they fly from the terror without to the citadel within, which famine and pestilence and fire and sword cannot shake. What Goethe calls the inner universe, can live by its own laws, create its own security, be sufficient unto itself, when once reality is denied to the turmoil of the world without.
- Edith Hamilton
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
- Oscar Hammerstein Ii
I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.
- Alan Hansen
Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
- Ian Hart
In life there is reality and there is what you want in life. If you took a moment to step back and forget about everything that is going on that doesn't really mean that much anyway, you might be able to figure out how to get what you want and what has been stopping you. For every problem there is a solution, for every... need God has provided the answer, and for every want there is a way. Reality is what you make it.
- Joshua Hartzell
It was different in America: the incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth--reality is the fastest American commodity.
- Aleksandar Hemon
You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.
- J K Rowling
Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can't see.
- Lady Lalaigne
- Jeanine Henning
The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.
- John Hewson
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
- Lauryn Hill
Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.
- Eric Holder
The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.
- Eric Holder
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
- Edmund Husserl
Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Steve has a reality distortion field." When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. "In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.
- Walter Isaacson
Reality isn't round, it's flat. There are edges where you can fall off and this October when I moved to Maine, I fell off one.
- Carrie Jones
My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.
- Kim Kardashian
Normal is an ideal. But it's not reality. Reality is brutal, it's beautiful, it's every shade between black and white, and it's magical. Yes, magical. Because every now and then, it turns nothing into something.
- Tara Kelly
You can lie to yourself if you want, but reality is going to catch up with you. I'll be waiting when it does... whether you like it or not.
- Kody Keplinger
Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.
- Young Ha Kim
There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.
- Jimmy Kimmel
The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apartidea of thing, reality of thingthe wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.
- Jamaica Kincaid
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
- Robin Williams
The deeper reality is that I'm not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I'm certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?...There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There's probably a third level, toohow I want to think I feel.
- Chuck Klosterman
Reality is something you rise above.
- Liza Minnelli
What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.
- Liza Minnelli
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch.
- Dean Koontz
reality is perception perception change....reality is fluid so if by reality you mean reliably tangible objects and immutable events then theres no such thing
- Dean Koontz
Reality isn't what it used to be.
- Dean Koontz
...reality is always plural and mutable.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Reality is what you can get away with.
- Robert Anton Wilson
I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.
- Anne Lamott
The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don't get you. Who knows what you would have contributed to the world had you just been yourself, if you had just celebrated who you are and just walked boldly?
- Queen Latifah
Common bread, miraculous bread, sacramental bread-these three are distinct, but not to be separated. Divine reality is like a fugue. All His acts are different, but they all rhyme and echo to one another. It is this that makes Christianity so difficult to talk about.
- C S Lewis
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
- C S Lewis
Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.
- C S Lewis
Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?
- C S Lewis
You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
- Roy Lichtenstein
A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
- Blanche Lincoln
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.
- Dan Lipinski
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
- Bill Maher
The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.
- Herbie Mann
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
- Lily Tomlin
Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.
- Lily Tomlin
Reality is always extraordinary.
- Mary Ellen Mark
reality is like a fruitcake: Pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
- A Lee Martinez
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
- Thom Mayne
I know you're frustrated, Sam, but the reality is you're in a world now where the majority of the people you run into will be able to snap you like a twig."
"My world was like that before.
- Lish Mcbride
Believe reality is what you were taught was myth.
- Nicholas A Mcgirr
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
- Terence Mckenna
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
- Jon Meacham
The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.
- Marty Meehan
We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.
- Robert Menendez
The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.
- Rick Mercer
Reality is like fine wine: it does not appeal to children.
- Donald Miller
Reality is the page. Life is the word.
- David Mitchell
Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.
- Karen Marie Moning
The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language.
Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: In the beginning was the Word.
- Alan Moore
- Douglas Adams
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
- Douglas Adams
Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.
- Scott Adams
Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren't even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
- Adyashanti
A good part of what appears to us - prima facie - as objective reality is, instead, just a consequence of our conventions to discover it.
- Felix Alba Juez
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Besides, reality is so much better than any fairytale.
- Monica Alexander
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
- Shana Alexander
I didn't like the endless gossiping or the constant complaints that they were victims of external factors. Somalis never said "Sorry" or "I made a mistake" or "I don't know": they invented excuses. All these group strategies to avoid confronting reality depressed me. Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
You always think another time would have been ideal for you... the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.
- Woody Allen
She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.
- Isabel Allende
I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
- Isabel Allende
Reality is always so obstructive.
- Eric Ambler
Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.
- Martin Amis
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
- W H Auden
Because I keep it real and reality is a ruthless bitch. Plus I wanna make money you cool with that? - Gable
- J M August
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.
- Will Christopher Baer
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
- J G Ballard
Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.
- J G Ballard
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
- J G Ballard
I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.
- Eric Bana
You look at me and tell me you think you're some goddamn obligation to me. You look at me and tell me that we're pretending when the connection between us is the most tangible, overpowering thing I've ever felt in my life. If this is pretending, then I damn sure don't want to know what reality is.
- Maya Banks
All reality is a game.
- Iain Banks
When you have once seen the chaos, you must make some thing to set between yourself and that terrible sight; and so you make a mirror, thinking that it shall be reflected the reality of the world; but then you understand that the mirror reflects only appearances, and that reality is somewhere else, off behind the mirror; and then you remember that behind the mirror there is only the chaos.
- John Banville
Not to mention, we're using you for bait. (Syn)
Are you that drunk? (Nykyrian)
What? I wasn't supposed to tell her that? (Syn)
I'm bait? (Kiara)
No, you're not bait. Ignore the alcoholic whose view of reality is distorted by his brain-damaged hallucinations. (Nykyrian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.
- Lewis Carroll
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
- Charles Baudelaire
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
- John Steinbeck
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
- Walter Benjamin
it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.
- Haruki Murakami
In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.
- Haruki Murakami
After I gave up sleeping, it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework.
Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.
- Haruki Murakami
Reality is the place we need to live, but our imaginations harbor the greatest places to visit!
- Giuseppe Bianco
They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.
- Kenneth Blackwell
The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.
- Michael Bloomberg
The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive of reality, is necessary objectively and to really carry it out.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Knowing... that the struggle to create a different current reality is to no avail helps keep the attention present even when experience is painful.... the same wisdom that keeps the attention alert and present in painful circumstances includes the awareness... that human beings feel about things, that we lament or yearn or grieve even when we understand that things can't be different. [p. 33]
- Sylvia Boorstein
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
- Jorge Luis Borges
It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing and try to bear in mind everyone in the audience.
- Matthew Bourne
Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
- Julie Bowen
I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
- Julie Bowen
I don't want to base my life on a symbol," he said resolutely. "I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What's not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They're the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream.
- Gregory A Boyd
Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't actually see it or touch it. But to the Brahma, it simply doesn't exist the way the air and the earth, pain and loss do. To him, the banker's reality is folly. To the banker, the Brahma's ideas are as inconsequential as dust.
- Libba Bray
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
- Barbara Broccoli
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
- Harold Brodkey
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
- Dalai Lama
I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.
- Dalai Lama
Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.
- Dan Brown
Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.
- Nicholas Sparks
So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?
- Chuck Palahniuk
What if reality is nothing but some disease?
- Chuck Palahniuk
We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.
- Richard Burr
The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.
- Amir Butler
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
- Albert Einstein
Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.
- Orson Scott Card
It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.
- William James
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
- Anne Carson
Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.
- Paul Celan
Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.
- Paul Celan
Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?
- Geraldine Chaplin
I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.
- Stephen King
Reality is a sliding door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.
- Morris Chestnut
Downy feathers kiss your face and flutter everywhere.
Reality is a lovely place but I wouldn't want to live there.
- Owl City
There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.
- Louis L Amour
But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story..
- David Clement Davies
I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.
- Ernest Cline
I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.
- Hillary Clinton
Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly isand that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.
- Harlan Coben
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore
- Leonard Cohen
Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.
- David Levithan
Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
- Mason Cooley
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous.
- Henry David Thoreau
The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be - the more traditional view of the solar system still prevailed even among leading scientists. So it's hardly surprising that Galileo's Catholic judges had difficult accepting his views, especially when they saw themselves as defending scientific orthodoxy and were supported in this by the scientific establishment.
- Michael Coren
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
- Donald Knuth
The reality is that most of us communicate the same way that we grew up. That communication style becomes our normal way of dealing with issues, our blueprint for communication. It's what we know and pass on to our own children. We either become our childhood or we make a conscious choice to change it.
- Kristen Crockett
Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
- Russell Crowe
If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?
- Virginia Woolf
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.
- Mitch Daniels
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
- Sammy Davis Jr
You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.
- Artur Davis
Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
- Philip K Dick
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K Dick
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
- Philip K Dick
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
- Barry Diller
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
- Wilhelm Dilthey
We can find different reasons for which we human beings are here. Nonetheless, one thing is clear: besides clothing, eating, or health care, we also need at least three innermost elements to live. Those elements are faith, hope, and love. No matter the way we define those elements; their meaning in reality is worth.
- Isaias Doleo
Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Reality is infinitely diverse. It resists classification, inward life. Peculiar to us...not simply the official existence.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.
- Marcel Duchamp
Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life.
- Patty Duke
I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.
- Tony Dungy
To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.
- Courtney Thorne Smith
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
- Emile Durkheim
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time - not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.
- Lawrence Durrell
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26)
- Henry Miller
The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which they have made of life requires no decoration; it is essential that only the drains function adequately. Beauty, that feline beauty that has us by the balls in America, is finished.
- Henry Miller
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
- Henry Miller
The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.
- Kenneth Edmonds
Reality is inside the skull.
- George Orwell
Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.
- Jerome K Jerome
I'll tell you what's real. Real is that I was in jail for the past year, rooming with drug dealers and eating crap food your dog wouldn't touch. Real is not being able to wear your own frickin' underwear and showering with twenty-five other dicks every day while guards watch. Real is my next-door neighbor who walks like she's balancing on stilts because her leg is so fucked up from the accident. Brian, your perception of reality is totally off.
- Simone Elkeles
I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.
- Linda Ellerbee
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
- Ralph Ellison
The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.
- Jimmy Fallon
Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.
- Brett Favre
People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.
- Rio Ferdinand
No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.
- Rio Ferdinand
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.
- John Fiske
Reality is just a dream dreamed by everyone
- Fola
Yet 'Reality' is just whatever illusion we believe in
- Fola
The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
- Harold Ford
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.
- Paulo Freire
Reality is an acquired taste.
- Robert Fritz
Reality is a fragile thing.
- Cornelia Funke
The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
- Lady Gaga
There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.
- Neil Gaiman
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.
- George R R Martin
If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
- Eckhart Tolle
Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.
- John Garamendi
Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.
- Jorge Garcia
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
- Romain Gary
The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever its comforts for those afraid reality is going to go away unless we believe very hard in it, not conduced to much in the way of clarity in the anti-relativist discussion, but merely to far too many people spending far too much time describing at length what it is they do not maintain than seems in any way profitable.
- Clifford Geertz
Reality is such an elusive concept.
- Laura Gilfillan
Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.
- Rob Glaser
Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
- Jean Luc Godard
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.
- Thaddeus Golas
Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.
- Terry Goodkind
Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.
- Paul Goodman
When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.
- Erin Gray
Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.
- Tom Robbins
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.
- Tom Robbins
The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.
- Tom Robbins
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.
- Tom Robbins
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr Seuss
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
- Alex Haley
When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere somehow, men must find refuge. Then they fly from the terror without to the citadel within, which famine and pestilence and fire and sword cannot shake. What Goethe calls the inner universe, can live by its own laws, create its own security, be sufficient unto itself, when once reality is denied to the turmoil of the world without.
- Edith Hamilton
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
- Oscar Hammerstein Ii
I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.
- Alan Hansen
Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
- Ian Hart
In life there is reality and there is what you want in life. If you took a moment to step back and forget about everything that is going on that doesn't really mean that much anyway, you might be able to figure out how to get what you want and what has been stopping you. For every problem there is a solution, for every... need God has provided the answer, and for every want there is a way. Reality is what you make it.
- Joshua Hartzell
It was different in America: the incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth--reality is the fastest American commodity.
- Aleksandar Hemon
You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.
- J K Rowling
Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can't see.
- Lady Lalaigne
- Jeanine Henning
The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.
- John Hewson
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
- Lauryn Hill
Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.
- Eric Holder
The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.
- Eric Holder
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
- Edmund Husserl
Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Steve has a reality distortion field." When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. "In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.
- Walter Isaacson
Reality isn't round, it's flat. There are edges where you can fall off and this October when I moved to Maine, I fell off one.
- Carrie Jones
My reality is never going to be stick-skinny.
- Kim Kardashian
Normal is an ideal. But it's not reality. Reality is brutal, it's beautiful, it's every shade between black and white, and it's magical. Yes, magical. Because every now and then, it turns nothing into something.
- Tara Kelly
You can lie to yourself if you want, but reality is going to catch up with you. I'll be waiting when it does... whether you like it or not.
- Kody Keplinger
Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.
- Young Ha Kim
There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.
- Jimmy Kimmel
The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apartidea of thing, reality of thingthe wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.
- Jamaica Kincaid
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
- Robin Williams
The deeper reality is that I'm not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I'm certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?...There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There's probably a third level, toohow I want to think I feel.
- Chuck Klosterman
Reality is something you rise above.
- Liza Minnelli
What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.
- Liza Minnelli
Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch.
- Dean Koontz
reality is perception perception change....reality is fluid so if by reality you mean reliably tangible objects and immutable events then theres no such thing
- Dean Koontz
Reality isn't what it used to be.
- Dean Koontz
...reality is always plural and mutable.
- Robert Anton Wilson
Reality is what you can get away with.
- Robert Anton Wilson
I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.
- Anne Lamott
The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don't get you. Who knows what you would have contributed to the world had you just been yourself, if you had just celebrated who you are and just walked boldly?
- Queen Latifah
Common bread, miraculous bread, sacramental bread-these three are distinct, but not to be separated. Divine reality is like a fugue. All His acts are different, but they all rhyme and echo to one another. It is this that makes Christianity so difficult to talk about.
- C S Lewis
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
- C S Lewis
Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows.
- C S Lewis
Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?
- C S Lewis
You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
- Roy Lichtenstein
A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
- Blanche Lincoln
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.
- Dan Lipinski
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
- Bill Maher
The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.
- Herbie Mann
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
- Lily Tomlin
Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.
- Lily Tomlin
Reality is always extraordinary.
- Mary Ellen Mark
reality is like a fruitcake: Pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
- A Lee Martinez
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
- Thom Mayne
I know you're frustrated, Sam, but the reality is you're in a world now where the majority of the people you run into will be able to snap you like a twig."
"My world was like that before.
- Lish Mcbride
Believe reality is what you were taught was myth.
- Nicholas A Mcgirr
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
- Terence Mckenna
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
- Jon Meacham
The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.
- Marty Meehan
We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.
- Robert Menendez
The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.
- Rick Mercer
Reality is like fine wine: it does not appeal to children.
- Donald Miller
Reality is the page. Life is the word.
- David Mitchell
Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.
- Karen Marie Moning
The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language.
Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: In the beginning was the Word.
- Alan Moore
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