We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
Frances Burney

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
Mason Cooley

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
Mason Cooley

Perception is reality.
Lee Atwater

To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
George Wald

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.
Lauren Graham

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.
George Wald

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.
Robert Redford

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
Ibrahim Babangida

Reality is always extraordinary.
Mary Ellen Mark

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
Edward Albee

Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
Victoria Jackson

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.
Moshe Dayan

We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.
John W. Snow

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.
Rick Perry

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
Jose Saramago

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.
Robert J. Ringer

Hope is the denial of reality.
Margaret Weis

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Walter Bagehot