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Quotes About Actuality

I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up.
~ Trent Reznor
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
~ Mark Twain
I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
~ Richard Rosen
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
In his heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it.
~ Yukio Mishima
Don't mess around with reality and reality won't mess around with you.
~ zelinski ernie j
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
~ zizek slavoj ii
The fact speak for themselves.
~ Demosthenes
BEING (models) instead of SEEMING (actors).
~ Robert Bresson
That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it's right there, so blurred you can't focus on it, yet you can put your foot down and touch it anytime, and the whole thing, the whole experience, is never removed from immediate consciousness
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Whatever we think is real becomes reality, in most cases.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
The discontinuous 'reduction of the wave packets' which cannot be derived from Schroedinger's equation is ... a consequence of the transition from the possible to the actual.
~ Werner Heisenberg
And so the skiing holiday (and much of my life generally) proceeded: anticipation in the morning, anxiety in the actuality, and pleasant memories in the evening.
~ Alain de Botton
Unlike in simulations, reality bled.
~ Alan Dean Foster
There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.
~ Gary Crowley
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
~ Jerry Saltz
Love is the synthesis of dream and actuality; love is the only matrix of the unprecedented; love is the tree which buds lovers like roses.
~ Angela Carter
Even if it is the dream made flesh, the real, once it becomes real, can be no more than real.
~ Angela Carter
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
~ Charles Sanders Peirce
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
I deal in facts.
~ Louis Freeh
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
realities instead.
~ Roger Scruton