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Quotes About Realities

Before God and in conscience, Muslims cannot satisfy themselves by repeating what the texts say and then snap their fingers at daily social realities: that would be to speak of an ideal while at the same time blind themselves as to their daily betrayal.
~ Tariq Ramadan
I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.
~ Cory Doctorow
The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
~ V. S. Naipaul
And the nature of split screen is a disconnect: It's a line between two characters, two images, two realities.
~ Sam Levinson
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
But I have to warn you that this is the word—'politics'—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.
~ Neal Stephenson
this is the word—'politics'—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.
~ Neal Stephenson
Politics." Doob sighed. Luisa chuckled. "I hear you, sugar. I'm not gonna say you're wrong. But I have to warn you that this is the word—'politics'—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.
~ Neal Stephenson
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Crises expose realities and strip away obfuscation and misdirection.
~ Vaclav Smil
To believe that our understanding of these dynamic, multifactorial realities has reached the state of perfection is to mistake the science of global warming for the religion of climate change.
~ Vaclav Smil
But if we can radiate true joy from a deep place in our souls, despite the external realities, we will have much to say to a stressed-out, cynical culture that knows very little of true joy.
~ Valerie E Hess
We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
~ Victor Hugo
Il y a des illusions touchantes qui sont peut-être des réalités sublimes.
~ Victor Hugo
Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories." The
~ Kristin Hannah
Before the Internet, crackpots were mostly isolated and surely had a harder time remaining convinced of their alternate realities. Now their devoutly believed opinions are all over the airwaves and the Web, just like actual news. Now all the fantasies look real.
~ Kurt Andersen
The focus on the present reality of heaven and hell does not, in some way, raise the question of their existence. Far from it. The present realities of love and hate are proof that heaven and hell are real—so real, in fact, that their ways of life bleed into ours.
~ Kyle Strobel
Marriage confused me. Some days it seemed to be just an endless sequence of body functions: the fan turned on in the smelly bathroom; the sound of someone clipping their toenails into the trash can; a waxy Q-tip on the counter; a scrim of shaved-off hairs around the sink. Another person's waste sloughing off incessantly! It can really drain a person of the will to live.
~ Catherine Newman
At various ages children become aware of different realities of the gospel.
~ Catherine Stonehouse
everything in life is a good news/bad news story.
~ Gordon Livingston
You can't separate the means from the cause, Brigitta. In theory, perhaps, but not in practice. We are dealing in realities here.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you turn out to be. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall sooner or later be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. The finest achievement turned into before everything and for a time a dream. The okaysleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and within the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
~ James Allen
Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.
~ Stephen Kinzer
Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams