Quotes About Reality

I am not designed to exist in this thing- and yet for all intents and purposes it is now the thing that defines me. It is the only thing that defines me.

Scratch a cynic and you'll find a disappointed idealist.

It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

Sometimes you had to accept the impossible, because nothing else made any sense.

Death had come to be treated too often like lost points in a video game.

The realities of this world are hard work, preparation, negotiation, determination, commitment, honesty, and charity.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

He dreamed big but understood that dreams become reality only when their champions are strong enough and wily enough to bend history to their purposes.

The disparity between the idealism of 1914 and the reality of war was so great that combatants and noncombatants alike had to find myths that would give meaning to the meaningless.

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

Often, what we think are the facts of the past are in reality simply reflections of what we want to believe about the present.

Sartre's remark: "Tomorrow, after my death, certain people may decide to establish fascism, and the others may be cowardly or miserable enough to let them get away with it. At that moment, fascism will be the truth of man, and so much the worse for us. In reality, things will be as much as man has decided they are."1

Pasaulis ima visk? per rimtai. Pasauly žmon?s žudos d?l id?j?. Id?jos pasidar? per rimtos.

I do not understand, I never really understood, never really lived in the so-called real world. I lived… I live in my own imaginary world, which is as real as any other world, as real as the real worlds of all the other people around me.

aš niekada nefilmuoju ger? performans? ar intensyvaus gyvenimo aš filmuoju tik blogus performansus ir kasdieninio gyvenimo fragmentus su kuriais aš tada kuriu intensyv? nauj? gyvenim?.

pranc?zai klydo sakydami kad kuo daugiau viskas kei?ias tuo daugiau viskas pasilieka kaip buv? nes iš ties? niekas nepasilieka kaip buv?.

Ne viskas turi esm?. Yra aki? be dugno, yra širdži? išsekusi?, kaip sausmedis, ištroškusi?. Tikrov??- miražas dykumoj kartais tikresnis, negu mes patys.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

But more important, the scapegoating tone and tenor revealed that the Clintons were either living on another planet or at least having emotional and intellectual difficulty coming to terms with the reality that only Hillary was culpable and only Hillary could turn things around.

Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.

Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen

I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real.