Quotes About Reality

Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.

Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

The world wants to be deceived.

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

We must confront the reality that his [Donald Trump] comments have provoked, and consider whether we want to import such hatred to this country.

It's not about fooling somebody, it's actually giving somebody a measure of their own belief: how much you want to be fooled. That's why we pay to go to magic shows and things like that.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

You're doing your kids a disservice if they do get everything they want because that's not the way life's going to go, and I think kids have to have some reality.

A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

The practical reality of managing cars in the family - I do 36-month leases. I think they're horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

Just because you want something to be true doesn't make it that way." -The Host

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'

People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

I don't think so much anymore. When you're younger, and at your height, then people want you to do that great one again. But seriously, things are forgotten, and that's the truth.

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.