Reality Quotes
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Only if you bring together the experience of the concrete struggles conducted by the real masses in the three sectors of the world (which are also called the three sectors of world revolution), then you have an overall, correct view of world reality.
Ernest Mandel
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My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.
Amitava Kumar
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Embrace reality by imagination.
Austin Osman Spare
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A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of his essays: "Reality exerts pressure on the imagination." Inevitably what is omnipresent in the culture exerts its pressure on our imaginations to respond to it, even if indirectly. But in this case the backdrop of 9/11, coincident with the breakup of a marriage, the finding of new love, some kind of personal cataclysm... all of those were forces informing the poems in some way.
Stephen Dunn
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That "religion" is about wanting the thing to last forever and make the pain go away. The reality is, instead, more about Jesus kneeling in the dust making a paste of spit and dirt. The reality is much more raw.
Nora Gallagher
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I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.
Anita Hill
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Making reality real is art's responsibility.
Eudora Welty
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A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.
Aubrey Plaza
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Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.
Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
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I don't remember a time when it wasn't, when I didn't feel like the LGBTQ community was part of my life and part of reality.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
Penn Jillette
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
Wole Soyinka
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I think, so often, female cofounders are positioned in this competitive, catty way. It's just awful. It's not reality.
Jennifer Hyman
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When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.
Elizabeth Hawes
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Read enough books on the body, and you'll find that reality is much stranger than any sci-fi series.
Susannah Cahalan
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Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.
Anne Wojcicki
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Time is the very lens through which ye see - small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope - something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality.
C. S. Lewis
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The reality of today, in most other countries, the number of people affected is a handful, but we don't know what it will be in a week or two.
Chase Carey
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All the events said to have been witnessed by John alone are omitted by John alone. This fact seems fatal either to the reality of the events in question or to the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel.
William Rathbone Greg
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I really hope that I can be as good as some people think I can be. But I may never work again... and that's the reality of the film industry. So, it's nice but I wouldn't want to go into something feeing like I needed to prove that I was good enough to be there. Maybe in some ways, it makes me think: "Do you know what? Some people think I'm alright, so maybe I should go into a job thinking I'm not rubbish." But I don't really think about it.
Aisling Loftus
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When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality.
R. A. Lafferty
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Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.
Calvin Seerveld