Quotes About Reality

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.

It really annoys me when magazines put up these 'superwomen' with the perfect blow-dry, the perfect life - but nothing's perfect. People have a whole bunch of problems and it's how many solutions you can find to those problems as to how happy you are.

Democrats refuse to deal with reality. They make things up, sensationalize common sense solutions, and exacerbate this obsession over political correctness.

Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that reality can't deliver.

Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

Academy Awards don't really solve anything.

The market is no god - it cannot solve every problem.

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems.

I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.

At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge.

I always had this impression that money bought you happiness and money solved everything, and it's the biggest lie I have ever been told.

Reality is a powerful solvent.

I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction.

Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can't be naive.