Reality Quotes
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Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.
Pablo Picasso
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I don't want to be a reality retro star.
Bret Michael Sychak Poison
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I thought my sports career was over once I got into a wheelchair. That was the hardest reality I had to face.
Victoria Arlen
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It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament because of the perfection of the New Covenant. The sacrifices of the Old Covenant contained the true sacrifice of Christ's Passion only in symbol....Therefore it was necessary that the sacrifice of the New Covenant, instituted by Christ, have something more, namely, that it contain Christ Himself who has suffered and contain Him not only in symbol but in reality.
Thomas Aquinas
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Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.
Joanna Scott
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In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.
C. S. Lewis
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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
Tom Stoppard
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The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
Umberto Eco
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The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.
Chris Pine
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
Charles de Gaulle
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If you want to know the reality, you have to become the spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.
Janet Jackson
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The Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge.
James E. Faust
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If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.
Dalai Lama
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.
C. S. Lewis
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To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
Nelly Sachs
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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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An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.
David Ebershoff
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It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
Clive Bell
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In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.
Brian Tracy
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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.
Ayn Rand
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The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who's seen my work knows everything about me.
Andy Garcia
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t's clear, that if Britain leaves Europe it will be young people who suffer the most, left in limbo while we struggle to find and then negotiate an alternative model. In doing so we risk that lost generation becoming a reality.
Nicky Morgan
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I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher