Reality Quotes
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Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
John M. Ford
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In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme of my works. I am trying to ask, 'How does our society develop? What are the problems in our society? Where is our direction leading?'
Liu Bolin
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
Hippocrates
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The fascination of trifles obscures the good,” says the Wise Man. It is difficult in the midst of much doing and seeing to keep alive and present to the deepest reality, to the really real. And so the monk goes apart…
Basil Pennington
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To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
Nelly Sachs
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It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
Andrzej Wajda
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
Margaret Drabble
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The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.
Marty Meehan
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I'm always amused when people point out that Benjamin's naivety about the publishing process is just so unbelievable in Starborn #1 since, of course, no aspiring writer in reality could ever be so naive.
Chris Roberson
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
Yann Martel
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There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing
William James
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Sometimes it seems to me that God's way of dealing with me is not to let me see much of my friends, those who are most to me in the spiritual life, lest I should forget that the invisible bond is the only reality. That is the only way I can reconcile myself to the inevitable separations of life and death.
Lucy Larcom
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In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.
Yehudi Menuhin
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I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.
Mary Ellen Mark
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What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.
Jason Katims
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Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.
Lois Lowry
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'...reality’s always dull, you know...'
Anthony Burgess
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The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.
D. Michael Quinn
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Dreams are the seedlings of reality.
Napoleon Hill
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The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.
Hermann Hesse
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I understand our audience loves to see some drama on TV, but even they have got bored with similar patterns of carrying out reality singing shows.
Armaan Malik
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Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.
Napoleon Hill
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Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of reality, not reality itself.
Georg Feuerstein
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
Charles de Gaulle