Reality Quotes · Page 274

Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character…

— George F. Kennan

God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I'm led to.

— Lauryn Hill

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

— Thor Heyerdahl

It seems natural to surround my fictional world with animals because my reality is full of them. When I'm sitting there conceiving…

— Sara Gruen

I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside…

— Jodi Picoult

The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.

— Ani DiFranco

The universe cannot show you anything which you've intentionally chosen to block from your reality.

— Steve Pavlina

Sometimes you don't realize your own strengths until someone tries to take advantage of your weaknesses.

— Bernajoy Vaal

Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has…

— Gisele Freund

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it.…

— Fran Lebowitz

When your love life is in the hands of algorithms alone, you're heading down a one-way street. And sometimes that's a street…

— Ulrika Jonsson

Incidentally, I don't think there is a non-adjectival 'globalisation'. What we have now is a particular form: dominated by finance and multinational…

— Doreen Massey

All the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Thinking your way through life’s challenges with the limited perspective of your five senses, will no longer work! YOU must expand your…

— Elaine Seiler

Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach,…

— Isabel Allende

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

— Vera John-Steiner

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

— Tibor Kalman

Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.

— Jane Green

“Jokes are hilarious only when you take them unreal and dreamlike, otherwise it becomes painful. So I always live otherworldly...”

— Saket Assertive

Understanding the difference between perception and reality can help you to live a happier life.

— Anonymous

We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing…

— Yoko Ono

We talked [with Scott Derrickson] about making it kind of muscular and practical. Yeah it's a fantasy but what's the difference between…

— Tilda Swinton

For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos.…

— Gaston Bachelard

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

— Edith Sitwell

“Life is about peeking through the veil of forgetfulness. What is hidden awakens the joy of revealing it.”

— Gordana Biernat

Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.

— Janet Jackson

But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.

— Audrey Meadows

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create…

— Josephine Hart

They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.

— Hannah Arendt

Our words are the blueprints of our thoughts and have amazing power to manifest into our reality. It also convenes different meanings.

— Kemmy Nola

It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash…

— Chuck Klosterman

“There comes a time in your life where you have to live without the wo/man of your dreams and have to live…

— Nomthandazo Tsembeni

Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.

— Jim Rohn

Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

— Tom Hodgkinson

We don't make things happen. Things happen the way we see them what makes them how they are

— Alexander Fennis

I think great music sells records, and I also think, do you want to be a reality star, or someone that actually…

— Joe Bonamassa

“Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Never forget where you've been. Never lose sight of where you're going. And never take for granted the people who travel the…

— Anonymous

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

— Catherine Deneuve