Quotes about reality
reality civilization mind-blowing
Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer. Neil deGrasse Tyson
reality names president
I have found that when calculating what no one has calculated before, like my observing sessions on the mountain, my mental acuity peaks. Ironically, these are the times that I would flunk the reality check normally reserved for mental patients and dazed boxers: What is your name? What day is it? Who is the president of the United States?... I do not know, and I do not care. I am at peace with my equations as I connect to the cosmic engines that drive our universe. Neil deGrasse Tyson
reality people decision
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people. Neil deGrasse Tyson
reality two talking
Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible. Neil Gaiman
reality void blackness
This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality. Neil Gaiman
reality echoes storm
Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all. Neil Gaiman
reality people trying
In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or propriety. Neil Gaiman
reality looks lasts
I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. Neil Gaiman
reality skills people
People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality. Neil Gaiman
reality program considering
Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront. John Negroponte
reality thinking expression
If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit! John Newton
reality names differences
Like any big company, they've got a brand name, and they've got to keep extending it. Because the reality is, there's not a whole lot of difference between their search (engine) and anyone else's. John Tinker
reality games organization
As an organization, would we like to be in a better spot Everybody would like to know they're in the playoffs. But that's not a reality, year after year being in a playoff spot with 10, 12, 15 games left. We don't have that this year, so our playoffs have started. John Tortorella
reality religion world
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power. John Tillotson
reality unlimited-love trying
Basic reality seems to be that the more you try to be like God by radiating unlimited love, the more you become flooded by waves of love from others and from God. John Templeton
reality important actors
It's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality. John Spencer
reality thinking games
The feeling is that the end game is in play for Iraq and we saw this yesterday, but the reality is that there are still concerns about economic growth and that will cap any market rally. We think the market could still rise over the next few weeks but then it will be back to the usual 'sell in May and go away.' This is not the beginning of a bull market. John Smith
reality years games
The reality is our season prepared us so well that if we have to play Duke in the second game, we've done that three times this year. We've played North Carolina and Duke back-to-back that this would be the third time. We're just very prepared for this moment. Shay Doron
reality humanity dying
The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying person’s humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die. Sherwin B. Nuland
reality people attention
Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of people [they're] with and this 'other' reality. Sherry Turkle
reality getting-high anything-goes
Everybody gets high, everybody gets low, these are the days when anything goes. Sheryl Crow
reality appreciate easy
You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality. Niki Lauda
reality may illusion
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. Nicolas Chamfort
reality world spirit
God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be found in the world of objects. Nikolai Berdyaev
reality changing-reality existence
Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences. Nikolai Berdyaev
reality men
so few in reality are the true necessities of man Nikos Kazantzakis
reality thinking insane
The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. Nikola Tesla
reality done glimpse
When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done. N. T. Wright
reality quality mysterious
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality. Morris Graves
reality thinking 80s-and-90s
There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood''s kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the '70s, '80s and '90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it's just a solid, good show. Monica Potter
reality men identity
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality. Mircea Eliade
reality historical looks
Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by the materialistic and scientific ideology of psychoanalysis, that is, a historical product... Mircea Eliade
reality space world
When the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there is not only a break in the homogeneity of space; there is also a revelation of an absolute reality, opposed to the nonreality of the vast surrounding expanse. The manifestation of the sacred ontologically founds the world. In the homogenous and infinite expanse, in which no point of reference is possible and hence no orientation can be established, the hierophany reveals an absolute fixed point, a center. Mircea Eliade