Quotes About Reality

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

We can't ignore right-wing demagogues who insist that the word of the doctor who proclaims a child's sex at birth somehow holds more sway over the reality of the body than the word of the person who inhabits it. - Gwendolyn Ann Smith

I'm sorry, darling, but it's the only face I've got.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

In The Hunger Games, there's something for everyone. A gripping adventure. A political commentary. A love story. A cautionary tale. Some call it science fiction, some call it potential reality. Some say it's for teenagers, some say it's for adults. The book--and now the film--captures themes and concerns that seem timely. But its real strength, in the end, is that it's timeless. It speaks to us today, and it will speak--even more powerfully--tomorrow.

The reality of life with children is that there is rarely enough privacy, energy or time for the rampant lust couples feel they ought to be having, and men often feel sidelined.

Until a thing was seen, could it be said to exist? And if his eye through the telescope were the one that brought a certain star into existence, did not that make him a creator?

You Can't Lose Something You Never Had

There's the life we dream, the life we deserve, and the life we get. I'll take what I got over what I deserve any day.

some wishes come true. some wishes dont. sometimes you find out you were wishing for the completely wrong thing.

Remember that other people are as real as you.Other people's feelings are as real as yours.In fact, our feelings are what make us real.

For hours after Andrew had died on his way into life, she felt powerfully that he had come from unreachable realms with knowledge she needed urgently to learn. Yet there he lay, swaddled in her arms, looking entirely at peace and not at all like a failed emissary. His face was closed; she could read nothing in his blank, perfect features except her own loss. She had given birth to death, and she felt its claim on her. She held Andrew until he was cold and his chill entered her body and heart.

One cannot always marry the person one loves...

What will happen will happen, whether I wish it or no. So, yes, I accept. It does not mean that I like it or wish it were not otherwise.

The most effective birth control I know is a toddler with the croup and diaper rash.

And sonograms distort reality in another, more subtle way: You can only take a picture of the embryo/fetus if you erase the body of the pregnant woman. As with the famous optical illusion of the duck-rabbit, you can't see them both at the same time. In a sonogram the fetus is the subject, the woman is the background; the case for its personhood is made by turning her into gray-and-white wallpaper.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

Hitler Tanr?'ysa,ben de Tanr?'y?m.Ama ikimizin de Tanr? falan olmad???n? dü?ünmek daha mant?kl? tabii.Ve daha makul

Unshakable, impregnable Empire has always been the dream of virile nations, and now at last it's turned into a nightmare reality. A monster that is killing us.

Reality is unbelievably terrifying after one has done nothing but dream.

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.