Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

C. S. Lewis

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

C. S. Lewis

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

C. S. Lewis

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

C. S. Lewis

Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

C. S. Lewis

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

C. S. Lewis

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

C. S. Lewis

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Burt Rutan

Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing into an aircraft, and burning up huge quantities of fossil fuels to propel our bodies and briefcases full of papers, will seem absolutely backward.

Busy Philipps

I would never be on a reality show.

Bryant H. McGill

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Celia Green

What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events. These equations are, we would argue, the only realities we can be certain of in physics; any other ways we have of thinking about the situation are visual aids or mnemonics which make it easier for beings with our sort of macroscopic experience to use and remember the equations.

Cesar Millan

Change takes effort. And the reality is, most people don't want to put in effort to better their life.

Carson Daly

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

Carnie Wilson

Sometimes reality T.V. can be stressful.

Carnie Wilson

When you film a reality show, it's so jumbled. They shoot episodes in all orders!

Alan Dean Foster

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

Alain Aspect

It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality

Al Yankovic

Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

Alain de Botton

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

Alain de Botton

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

Alain de Botton

Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

Alain de Botton

In reality, the likelihood of reaching the pinnacle of capitalist society today is only marginally better than were the chances of being accepted into the French nobility four centuries ago, though at least an aristocratic age was franker, and therefore kinder, about the odds. It did not relentlessly play up the possibilities open to all, ... and so, in turn, did not cruelly equate an ordinary life with a failed one.

Alain de Botton

It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver - because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly. Literature is the greatest reality simulator - a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.

Al Goldstein

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

Eddie Vedder

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

Eddie Vedder

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

Earl Nightingale

Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality

Eliot Spitzer

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

Deepak Chopra

Reality is mind-made.

Deepak Chopra

Knowledge of any kind ... brings about a change in awareness from where it is possible to create new realities.

Deepak Chopra

Creating your own reality is the richest gift you received at birth.

Deepak Chopra

Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by consciousness differentiating into cognition, moods, emotions, perceptions, behavior, speech, social interactions, environment, interaction with the forces of nature, and biology. As consciousness evolves, these different aspects of consciousness also change.