Quotes About Reality

The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.

He was convinced that the purse was like that stupid phone booth thing on that TV show Hardison liked: bigger on the inside than the outside.

Memory is fiction

History has a cruel way of disappointing optimists.

I still watch 'Idol ' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.

I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl.

Mrs. Vice turned to the weddings page. She liked to look at the smiling brides and imagine how miserable they would soon be.

Human beings are so depressing.

If suffering is ubiquitous in life, the withdrawal from and avoidance of suffering is accordingly the withdrawal from and avoidance of life. You

The unnerving possibility of one's own madness is preferable to the still more unnerving one of supernatural agency disrupting known, familiar realities.

Whether or not [a] story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl. A girl or a monster or both. Not everyone in a story gets a happy ending. Not everyone who reads a story feels the same way about how it ends. And if you go back to the beginning and read it again, you may discover it isn't the same story you thought you'd read. Stories shift their shape.

What is truth? Truth is telling it like it really is. Truth is not a thing, but rather a relationship between our words or ideas and reality. Whether

When a hen cackles, she's either layin' or lyin'.

It's the far-off cows that wear the biggest horns.

If we read Girls in the context of the earlier Sex and the City, the contrast between the two adds a dimension to the later serials's world. The impact of the financial crises has shifted the possibilities that had been opened to the characters. They live in contrast to the dreams they saw represented when they were younger.

Real life is never so neat as the stories we choose to tell about it

For there is a life there, and in destiny and romance there is no room for life. Painted as they are with broad brush strokes, vivid and lush, they find shape and pattern only with distance. The person who lives them is too close. He feels sweat as well as triumph. He understands what others see, but feels none of it himself

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.

Behind him the holograms above the Palace faded in the early sun. In his mind, they burned.

You create your own life by how you see the world and your place in it;

The human world is created out of our minds as much as from the natural environment.