Reality Quotes

• Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • Life
  • World
  • Daily

• Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Positive
  • Attitude
  • Possibility

• Introversion, when embraced, is a wellspring of riches. It took me years to acknowledge this simple reality, to claim my home, and to value all it offers.

  

  Laurie Helgoe
  • Home
  • Simple
  • Value

• I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.

  

  Eric Bana
  • People
  • Work
  • Kids

• Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • She
  • Community
  • Literature

• Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve the poor than they have of your service.

  

  Angela Merici
  • Reality
  • Need
  • Serve

• When you teach her that hoe mentality, they accept that as reality.

  

  Antonio Hardy
  • Reality
  • Teach
  • Mentality

• What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

  

  Amedeo Modigliani
  • Reality
  • Subconscious
  • Look For

• 'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • May
  • Reality

• I have a romantic vision of the beautiful delineation between TV and film that existed for so many years. I romanticize the studio system and movie stars as a whole, but obviously that's just anachronistic and probably a non-reality.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Vision

• If the interpreters are willing to say what the people have to say about their struggle and the reality of Jesus in the fight for freedom, and proceed to develop their tools of critical analysis in the light of their identification with the goals and aspirations of the people, then and only then are they prepared to ask the right questions and hear the right answers.

  

  James Hal Cone
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Jesus

• Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.

  

  C. J. Anderson
  • God
  • Faith
  • Imagination

• 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
  • Why
  • Running
  • Moral

• In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • Long
  • Power
  • War

• 'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

  

  Anna Torv
  • Reality
  • Profound

• I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.

  

  Banksy
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Kids

• The reality is simple: every country struggles with madmen and ideologues with guns, and every country-Canada, Norway, Britain-has had a gun massacre once, or twice. Then people act to stop them, and they do-as over the past few years has happened in Australia. Only in America are gun massacres of this kind routine, expectable, and certain to continue.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'

  

  Brian Greene
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Beginning

• Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Experience
  • American
  • War

• Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Reality
  • Love Is
  • Deviate

• In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • Reality
  • Army

• The unfortunate reality is the alt-right has captured white people's imagination.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• One may reject such proposals as something that will hurt merit but the ground reality is students from such sections do not have the same access to quality education that rich students enjoy.

  

  Uma Bharti
  • May
  • Education
  • Quality

• The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as their primary medium, won't even know what consensus reality is.

  

  R. U. Sirius
  • Reality
  • Victory
  • Next

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