Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Lowen

Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

Adam Schiff

The U. S. trade deficit with China shows that while we value the potential of their market, they value the reality of our market. It is in this area that we should use our leverage.

Adam Savage

The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.

Adam Savage

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Anna Torv

'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

Anish Kapoor

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

Ani Difranco

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

Andy Grove

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

Amy Ray

But the reality is that we are a folk band.

Allen Weinstein

Our new strategic plan emphasizes the importance of providing access to records anytime, anywhere. This is one of many initiatives that we are launching to make our goal a reality.

Allen Ginsberg

A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.

Allen Boyd

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

Allan Sherman

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

Alison Sweeney

With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.

Andris Piebalgs

Europe needs a clear and more collective and cohesive policy on security and energy supply. Today the issue of security of energy supply is only really considered at a national member-state level, but in reality we need a much greater European-wide approach on this issue.

Andrzej Wajda

By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.

Andrzej Wajda

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

Andrzej Wajda

Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.

Andrea Corr

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.

Andrea Dworkin

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

Alan Cohen

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

Alan Cohen

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

Philip Dick

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Adrian Grenier

In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.

Adam Shankman

Reality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.

Adam Young

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Adam Smith

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Adam Smith

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.

Adam Lambert

Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time

Adam Arkin

The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.

Adam Ant

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

Abraham Foxman

The guidelines say all the right things, ... They address all the issues that were raised as problems at the Air Force Academy. The major question is, how will be they become a reality A lot of the people implementing this are the people who violated it.