Reality Quotes
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The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.
Ryszard Kapuscinski -
Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
Peter McWilliams
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She may be mad, he realizes abruptly. Not clinically insane, just at odds with the entire universe. Locked into a pathological view of her own role in reality.
Charles Stross -
But reality television is here to stay.
Cilla Black -
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spencer -
These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.
Cary Cooper -
Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness."
Dalai Lama -
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
Will Yun Lee
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At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Trump's been a public personality forever, and that's fine if you want him to be a reality-TV host, but if you want him to be president, there's a different standard.
John Roger Stephens -
Death is funny in that it brings out the best and the worst in people. It casts light on the truth and makes life blindingly clear. The reality was starting to set in.
Allison DuBois -
Physicists however will be forced to recognize that the energy within molecular structures has its origin elsewhere. They will be forced to postulate the existence of an unknown force, always existing despite newer current theories. No postulated new force theory will be able to explain reality.
Jane Roberts -
There was a third element in reality that concerned me: movement.
Alberto Giacometti -
There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world.
Lorenzo Lamas
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A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.
Faina Ranevskaya -
It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.
Andrew Plotkin -
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.
Flannery O'Connor -
Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that reality for themselves.
Aldis Hodge -
Dreams come to those who dare dream and wake up to make them a reality.
Jeremy Miles Ferguson Amen -
Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.
Caitlin Thomas
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I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
Rabih Alameddine -
Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.
David Shields -
I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.
Lion Feuchtwanger -
Women may think men have it all, but only because we've been socialized to express the emotions that are tied to this reality differently, which is to say, men are not to express the emotions that are tied to it.
LZ Granderson