Reality Quotes · Page 272

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and…

— Shania Twain

It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.

— Prentice Marshall

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

— Ayn Rand

After all, if we are co-creators of our reality, as so many philosophies have espoused, then we have a say in how…

— Brenda Strong

Just take it easy and celebrate the malleable reality. You see, nothing is ever at is seems, yeah this life is but…

— Jason Mraz

“In this age when reality is built on big lies, what better place for truth than fiction?”

— Mat Johnson

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime --…

— Barbara Walters

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

— Thom Mayne

The APR provides a real-time snapshot of what is happening with our individual student-athletes today. However, it does not address some of…

— DeLoss Dodds

I have recently been able to see the new world - the quiet, the tranquility and the freedom it will bring with…

— Shari Arison

I remember Karoi as a very hot, flat place, but in reality, it is all hills. We just lived next to an…

— Alexandra Fuller

The truth that seems discouraging does in reality only transform the courage of those strong enough to accept it; and, in any…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“Soon, nobody was leaving their cubicles to talk anymore, and we were either e-mailing each other random thoughts or scheduling meetings, or…

— Christopher Herz

I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no,…

— Tim Burton

I do like Canadian poetry. Christian Bök, Anne Carson, Carmine Starnino, and Don McKay are a few of the Canadian poets whose…

— James Arthur

“Before an observation is made, an object exists in all possible states simultaneously. To determine which state the object is in, we…

— Michio Kaku

“You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the…

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of…

— Thomas S. Monson

“For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality”

— Daido Moriyama

Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place.

— Anna Kavan

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own…

— Herman Melville

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

— Anonymous

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you,…

— Wayne Dyer

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear,…

— Byron Katie

The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they…

— Juan Williams

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and…

— Muriel Rukeyser

One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

— Pat Metheny

Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment.

— Pedro Meyer

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he…

— Lawrence Durrell

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the…

— James Martineau

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

— Paulo Freire

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality…

— Lewis Thomas

“The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.”

— Raheel Farooq

The boundaries of a person's reality often do not change until that person forsakes what he or she feels confident in and…

— Robert Kiyosaki

Dear Youtube ads, on matter how many times you appear in my screen, I will still click the Skip Ad button.

— Michael Angelo De Leon

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

— Dean Koontz

Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.

— Albert Schweitzer

If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

— Byron Katie

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

— David Brin

When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in…

— Lawrence M. Krauss