Reality Quotes

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
Isabel Allende

Love, Understand, Confusion

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

Time, May, Exist

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

Best, Times, Story

With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
Alison Sweeney

Amazing, Everything, Sometimes

No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality.
Jonathan Kozol

Between, Kids, Child

A lot of people in fashion don't want to be linked with anything that has to do with reality TV.
Lauren Conrad

Fashion, Tv, Linked

I've always been open to doing reality again. Just under certain circumstances.
Lauren Conrad

If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.
will.i.am

Dream, Stay, Ghetto

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.
Gus Van Sant

Good, Job, Trying

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
Arnold Bennett

Hell, Secret, Heaven

Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.
Alfred Einstein

Sometimes, Picture, Seems

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
Natalie Wood

Life, Time, Emotional

You create your own reality.
Jane Roberts

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand

Honest, Lies, Books

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
John Polkinghorne

Experience, Knowledge, Unity

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.
John Polkinghorne

Hope, Experience, True

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion.
John Sununu

Reason, Far, Support

I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
Adam Carolla

Art, Around, Comedy

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
Miuccia Prada

Life, Work, Art

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.
John Dobbin

Good, Brain, Eyes

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
Morley Safer

Culture, Popular, Tv

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.
Richard Burr

Light, Often, Leave

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
Daisaku Ikeda

Peace, Women, Men

It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
Daisaku Ikeda

Life, Real, Earth

Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.
Andrew Cuomo

Change, Weather, Anyone

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
Karl Jaspers

Everything, Through, Thought

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Albert Bandura

Experience, Actions, Based

It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything.
George Saunders

Everything, Down, Universe

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.
George Saunders

Beauty, True, Happen

Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.
Ben Gibbard

Life, Friends, Living

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