Reality Sets In Quotes

#1. If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

Andy Grove

#2. At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life.

Ray Rhodes

#3. I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.

Joel Edgerton

#4. I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

Shawn Johnson

#5. There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in.

Michael Connelly

#6. It is better to remain humble, you don't have as far to fall when reality sets in.

Martha Fawcett

#7. It's easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations - then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what's ugly.

Richelle Mead

#8. Once the reality sets in of a superhuman intelligence being in control of every aspect of the infrastructures we rely upon for everyday life, we will simply have to try to come to an accommodation with that entity.

John L. Casti

#9. I'm in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in.

Moryah DeMott

#10. - most people don't plan past the honeymoon. But reality sets in when it gets down to dirty socks and what's for dinner.

Stephanie Bond

#11. Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

Ira Sachs

#12. People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.

Lenny Abrahamson

#13. God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.

Huston Smith

#14. Success is possible to anyone who sets his heart to it. Whatever we dream of can become reality if we put ourselves to work.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#15. Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower-but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, all in all,
I should know what God and man is.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#16. The Truth that sets you free is that you can experience in imagination what you desire to experience in reality, and by maintaining this experience in imagination your desire will become an actuality.

Neville Goddard

#17. We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.

Robert Grudin

#18. The sun sets and we sleep. The sun rises and we wake. We wake and, ever so briefly, ever so blindly, we enjoy the fantasy of beginning anew. Then, without fail, reality reasserts its presence.

John Verdon

#19. Every so often we long to steal to the land of what-might-have-been. But that doesn't soften the ache we feel when reality sets back in.

Stephen Schwartz

#20. I know I'm going to shred the skin off your face and turn it into hair ribbons.

Alexandra Bracken

#21. Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

James Geary

#22. Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a human being can imagine.

DJ Spooky

#23. The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

C.S. Lewis

#24. Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.

Alexander Ludwig

#25. I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

Isabella Rossellini

#26. 110Yet anyone who does evil or wrongs his own soul and then asks God for forgiveness will find Him most forgiving and merciful.

Anonymous

#27. Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.

C. Terry Warner

#28. you can't feel it. And if He doesn't show up in your circumstances, it's the end of the road. As the reality of the situation sets in, you can't help but wonder if God really cares. You reason,

Cherie Hill

#29. I did this.
The sudden reality of the situation sets in and I know that not only will I kill again, but I have doomed this poor soul to a life in the shadows, stalking his prey by the silver light of the full moon.
The corners of my mouth slants toward the heavens and I am smiling.

Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#30. Love that sets forth the soul like springtime and ripens it like summer. Love as rarely exists in reality, as if a master alchemist has taken it and distilled out all the impurities, every petty disenchantment, every unworthy thought, into a perfect elixir, sweet and deep and all-consuming.

Laini Taylor

#31. The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Leon Redbone

#32. Nothing we can't handle, break it up and dismantle.

DMX

#33. Science and theology are both lenses through which to interact with and interpret reality, sort of like a microscope and a pair of binoculars. Both sets of lenses tell us more about the world than we could see with the naked eye, but the information we get from each can diverge considerably.

T. Colin Campbell

#34. Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.

Ben Okri

#35. There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

Dada Vaswani

#36. It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.

Saul Bellow