Quotes About Realities

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.

I know that things change and markets change. Those are the realities of the business.

I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

We feel that if you - practice habits turn into game realities.

The day-to-day discomforts of prison life, combined with the big-picture realities of mass incarceration, do not add up to a party.

There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.

After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political enough. I had to be more honest about the realities of the community I was writing about.

There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.

It took me years to learn to deal with the realities of fame and success. It's hard work sometimes but clearly the pluses outweigh the negatives.

To cure ALS medically is not economical. The realities are that it's difficult to find funding for research for a medical cure. I believe in developing technology as opposed to medical research. Technology can be economical.

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.

My son is so fortunate, you know. He's always going to have food. Yes, my children are going to be privileged, but that's why it's so important for them to see different realities and to travel, and they do already.

I was an economist out of the National University of Mexico, where you lived the realities of Mexico all the time.

There's a lot that the city can do, and it depends on having a partnership with community members who are living the realities.

At a certain point, I think, you harden yourself to the realities of the business.

Food or the lack thereof can, at times, be coping mechanisms for people. While this isn't the best approach to good health, it's a part of people's realities. And it is nothing to be ashamed of.

In the descent from a world of factual discourse into a world of emotions and alternative realities, the first step you take, whether you're the Russian media, whether you're Breitbart, is that you manufacture lots of stuff that isn't true. The second step is that you claim that everyone is like this.