Hope is the denial of reality.
~By Margaret Weis ~
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
~By John F. Kerry ~
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.
~By Tina Yothers ~
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.
~By Moshe Dayan ~
The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
~By Philip K. Dick ~
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
~By Thom Mayne ~
Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.
~By Jerry Brown ~
The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.
~By Ryan White ~
I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
~By Pat Buckley ~
Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting.
~By Shemar Moore ~
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
~By Garrison Keillor ~
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
~By Susan Sontag ~
I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.
~By Paul Tagliabue ~
These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
~By Mortimer Zuckerman ~
Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.
~By Joan Severance ~
Perception is reality.
~By Lee Atwater ~
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
~By Ed Markey ~
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
~By Odilon Redon ~
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
~By Sean O'Faolain ~
As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.
~By John Thorn ~
There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
~By Daniel Clement Dennett ~
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.
~By Ethan Hawke ~
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
~By Edward Sapir ~
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
~By William Ralph Inge ~
You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
~By Roy Lichtenstein ~
Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.
~By John Garamendi ~
I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
~By Edward Bond ~
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.
~By John Fiske ~
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?
~By Jeff Gannon ~
Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
~By Les Brown ~
The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.
~By Mike Pence ~
There really is something raw about sexuality that's real and good and we must continue to learn to not be ashamed of it. But - we have to honor the reality of practicing safer sex.
~By Kyan Douglas ~
Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.
~By Steve Brown ~
A theory must be tempered with reality.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
~By Jonas Salk ~
I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.
~By Bobby Farrelly ~
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
~By Benjamin Haydon ~
Art must take reality by surprise.
~By Francoise Sagan ~
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
~By Judy Garland ~
Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.
~By Rob Glaser ~
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.
~By Richard Grant ~
I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.
~By Milos Forman ~
It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.
~By Russell Banks ~
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
~By Theodor Reik ~
The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
~By Max Jacob ~
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.
~By David Friedrich Strauss ~
We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.
~By Ethan Coen ~
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
~By Breyten Breytenbach ~
I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing.
~By Annabella Sciorra ~
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.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.
~By Jimmy Fallon ~
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
~By Czeslaw Milosz ~
Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.
~By Lew Wasserman ~
Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.
~By Ken Russell ~
I accept reality and dare not question it.
~By Walt Whitman ~
There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.
~By Meir Kahane ~
Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.
~By Trishelle Cannatella ~
Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.
~By Mike Pence ~
My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.
~By Terence Stamp ~
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
~By John Bradshaw ~
If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.
~By Nick Mancuso ~
Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
~By Tom Clancy ~
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
~By Plutarch ~
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
~By Theodore White ~
My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.
~By Vinton Cerf ~
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
~By Manuel Puig ~
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