Quotes about reality
reality fiction literature
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. Richard Dawkins
reality people religion
"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling. Richard Dawkins
reality
Science is the poetry of reality. Richard Dawkins
reality imports
They import and they consume reality. Robinson Jeffers
reality
I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it. Trent Reznor
reality tv-shows tvs
I enjoy reality TV shows. Watching them, and appearing in them. There's a spontaniety involved in the unscripted shows that I like to be involved with. Traci Bingham
reality forgive-me forgiving
Words don't come easily, like forgive me. Tracy Chapman
reality thinking feelings
We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived. Tracy Chapman
reality misconception
My reality is the misconceptions about me. Tori Spelling
reality people perception
Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds. Steve Young
reality visions-of-the-future two
To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality. Vince Lombardi
reality genius
The reality is Donald Trump's a genius. Rudy Giuliani
reality media gossip
I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because if you are elected to public office, people have a right to know a great deal about you, and the press has an absolute obligation to report all of that. But the reality is that there are times in which the reporting is really happening for almost voyeuristic reasons, in the gossip columns. Maybe half of it is wrong, and half of it is correct, and a lot of it is exaggerated. You've just got to get used to that if you're in public life. Rudy Giuliani
reality numbers people
We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people. Rudy Giuliani
reality imagination effort
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination with reality; he will look with contempt on his own unimportance, and wonder to what purpose he came into the world; he will repine that he shall leave behind him no evidence of his having been, that he has added nothing to the system of life, but has glided from youth to age among the crowd, without any effort for distinction. Samuel Johnson
reality differences hypocrisy
It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world. Samuel Johnson
reality process
The process is the reality. Samuel Johnson
reality choices balance
Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality. Sam Altman
reality light fiction
Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities. Ruth Ozeki
reality world unreal
It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. Rufus Wainwright
reality thinking medicine
I think God gives medication that heals some illnesses. But I think when you deny the reality of evil, you want to use medicine to solve every problem, and it doesn't solve every problem. Robert Jeffress
reality men looks
All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is. Rockwell Kent
reality trying capture
I try to capture reality, nothing else. Roberto Rossellini
reality tradition passages
Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led. Roberto Bolano
reality past events
Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. Robert Penn Warren
reality thinking people
I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed. Sarah Orne Jewett
reality made
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. Wallace Stevens
reality corruption realism
Realism is a corruption of reality. Wallace Stevens
reality metaphor
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. Wallace Stevens
reality imagination causes
The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world ... Wallace Stevens
reality phantoms firsts
How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations. Wallace Stevens
reality world tonight
The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other. Wallace Stevens
reality feelings increase
Poetry increases the feeling for reality. Wallace Stevens