Top 100 Quotes About Realities
#1. Pillars hold things up, and salt keeps things clean, but it's a poor exchange for losing your self. People do go back, but they don't survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time.
Jeanette Winterson
#2. Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding realities.
Frederick Lenz
#3. Truth is something believed in heart.
Fact is anything happened in realities.
Toba Beta
#4. Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
L. Ron Hubbard
#5. What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)
Stephen Batchelor
#6. A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes reality along with other realities - never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.
John Steinbeck
#7. Accepting the world's realities, even when you didn't understand them, was a basic necessity of existence in Ozark life.
Pamela Morsi
#8. The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting ...
Daniel Ellsberg
#9. Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
Nicholas Sparks
#10. You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.
Ronald Reagan
#11. Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.
Julian Baggini
#12. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die. We always think we are going to live forever. The dying aspect we will never accept. The one thing about having this kind of warning is how you appreciate every single day of life.
Oscar De La Renta
#13. Our imagination is God's ingenious gift that hands us the privilege of romping and playing in realities that we can't see only because we've yet to create them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#14. McKinsey partners tend to be designers of ditches, not diggers of ditches. When it comes to executing their lofty theories, well, consultants lean toward leaving those messy realities to the companies themselves.
Bethany McLean
#15. Words: repositories for singular realities which they then transform into memories in an anthology, magicians that change the face of reality by adorning it with the right to become memorable, to be placed in a library of memories.
Muriel Barbery
#16. Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.
Daniel Suarez
#17. Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections
William James
#18. One may also inhabit the limen, the place in between realities, a gap 'between and betwixt' universes of sense that construe social life and persons differently, an interstice from where one can most clearly stand critically toward different structures.
Maria Lugones
#19. We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food.
Edmund Muskie
#20. THE BIBLE, IN ALL ITS PARTS, IS INTENDED to communicate to humanity the realities of redemption. Over
Sandra L. Richter
#21. Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.
Adeline Yen Mah
#22. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#23. In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
R.D. Laing
#24. The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist.
William Segal
#25. Typology is the study of how OT historical persons, events, institutions, and settings function to foreshadow, anticipate, prefigure, and predict the greater realities in the new covenant age. The
Stephen J. Wellum
#26. Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake
realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into
forgeries of themselves.
Philip K. Dick
#27. Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.
R.D. Laing
#28. Think of joy! Think of realities! Realities bring real joy and inner peace even in discomfort!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#29. If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.
George Santayana
#30. For life is practically a battle. To all intents and purposes a battle. Except for a few lucky fellows who can read books, and so avoid the realities.
E. M. Forster
#31. The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.
Edwin Way Teale
#32. The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.
Jeremy Hardy
#33. With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today, we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.
Ronald Reagan
#34. Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.
Ron Fournier
#35. Failure and disillusionment are realities, but ideologies are made of dreams. And dreams, it would seem, do not fade easily.
Miyuki Miyabe
#36. Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.
Ansel Adams
#38. One who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul
Kate Chopin
#39. No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#40. The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature
all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.
Michael Crichton
#41. Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Stefan Zweig
#42. There are realities about what it is to be a woman in this world that are born from social convention. No matter how far away you are from civilization, you can't fully get away from that.
Jonathan E. Steinberg
#43. The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.
Mike Svob
#44. Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities.
George F. Kennan
#45. In all societies, both women and men are powerfully conditioned to repress the daily realities of (sexual harassment and workplace glass ceilings) and to collude with the rest of society in keeping these dimensions of shared experiences hidden.
William Keepin
#46. Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.
C.S. Lewis
#47. Altruism eventuates in all realities, else self-destruction consumes it.
Guy Lozier
#48. This is no tall story. Nor is it a short story. Indeed, a story cannot be measured, for their realities stretch far beyond a page or one person's life.
Leah Broadby
#49. One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.
Joyce Maynard
#50. There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear"..
Friedrich Nietzsche
#51. One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.
Joshua Waitzkin
#52. Perfection is an illusion which often prevents us from accepting the realities of life.
Sandeep Sharma
#53. In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.
Brian Tracy
#54. Tedium is the worst pain. the mind lays out the world in blocks, and the hushed blood waits for revenge. all order, i've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal - a harmless sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world - two snake pits.
John Gardner
#56. Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately leadership is about creating new realities.
Joseph Jaworski
#57. The solution to this paradox (according to Palahniuk) is the theory of splintered alternative realities, where all possible trajectories happen autonomously and simultaneously (sort of how Richard Linklater describes The Wizard of Oz to an uninterested cab driver in the opening sequence of Slacker).
Chuck Klosterman
#58. Some realities are too onerous to be borne by nations, let alone by children.
Gregory Maguire
#60. Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.
Swami Kriyananda
#61. The greatest nations are those who try to change the unalterable realities!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To grasp, to carry out the diktat of images to the letter.
Claude Cahun
#63. I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
R. Kelly
#64. One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the fates they deserve.
Nicholas Rescher
#65. The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
Bryant H. McGill
#66. They understood nothing, none of life's realities, and, I swear to you, this was what made me most indignant.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#67. I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.
James Dashner
#68. There are so many much bigger realities that bring pain and anger that I've learned to seek out small joys every day. It is one of the greatest forms of self-defense that I know.
My
Inga Muscio
#69. Going through life has its struggles, but not sharing the trials in a way that engages great communication, is a loss of the physical realities through our everyday senses.
Daniel B. Royer
#70. The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked it less. No matter; there would be an end to all this soon.
Joseph Conrad
#71. I've traversed countless different dimensions and parallel realities and i've yet to encounter a single problem that couldn't be solved with a series of well-placed bullets
Jason Aaron
#72. ...progress of civilization has brought along with it much beclouding of realities and grave danger. Apparent economies may easily deceive us. But technical progress should never be the goal, only the means.
Tenny Pinheiro
#73. Even if each of our realities is unique, our common cultures and environments ensure that we share some fundamental principles. That is what enables consensus, and that is what is under attack. By degrading the very notion of shared reality, Trump has disabled the engine of democracy. As
Brooke Gladstone
#74. I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.
Craig Newmark
#75. When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.
Harold Pinter
#76. FANATICISM is, to superstition, what delirium is to fever, and fury to anger : he who has ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, and imaginations for prophecies, is an enthusiast ; and he, who sticks not at supporting his folly by murder, is a fanatic.
Voltaire
#77. Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.
Nathan Myhrvold
#78. I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities.
August Wilson
#79. This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.
John Granger
#80. The individual's religion may be egotistic, and those private realities which it keeps in touch with may be narrow enough; but at any rate it always remains infinitely less hollow and abstract, as far as it goes, than a science which prides itself on taking no account of anything private at all.
William James
#81. I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
#82. There are three realities of life. The reality that you hold, as your individual's perspective, the actual reality, and the ultimate truth, out of which your perspective and the actual reality take place.
Roshan Sharma
#83. The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.
Voltaire
#84. The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities of a cruel age.
Thomas Merton
#85. When you have a political environment that is being so heavily influenced by the Tea Party that calls for shrinking the size of government, you can't ignore it. There are political realities.
Steve Capus
#86. May the hopes of your heart and dreams of your eyes keep turning into realities. To all women out there: The more you progress, the more humanity progresses.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#87. The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Samuel Johnson
#88. How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
Jules Verne
#89. It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to in the alternate realities and return it to the body of the client.
Sandra Ingerman
#90. By championing hedonistic consumerism and encouraging individuals of all classes to believe that ownership of a particular object mediated the realities of class, mass media created a new image of the rich.
Bell Hooks
#91. Renewing a relationship is a creative act. We make a new relationship. It is possible to build a new relationship regardless of the realities of the old relationship.
Desmond Tutu
#92. Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought - every aspect of creation. Only Christianity offers a way to live in response to the realities that we find in this world - only Christianity.
Tom DeLay
#93. Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself.
Thomas Merton
#94. In our universe we are tuned into the frequency that corresponds to physical reality. But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot tune into them.
Steven Weinberg
#95. It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.
Jimenez Lai
#96. I found it fascinating that there could be so many realities. There was the truth, which was the world we lived. There was also the worlds we would create for ourselves in our minds. In truth, there are countless universes and realities hiding within all of mankind.
Melissa C. Water
#98. She was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
L.M. Montgomery
#100. Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.
Eric Metaxas
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