Quotes About Reality

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

I hate this, I want this to stop, how are we supposed to live with this, and how am I supposed to walk away? You're real and I hate you for it.

It's still about making a good decision. We all want to have the Reggie Bush's of the world on our football team, but it's not reality.

Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.

but then you realize that this 'whole package' everyone's looking for is unattainable. No one can be everything you want them to be.

I will never have a life with Gale even if I want to.

no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States.

I've never been sentimental about my horse. The horse doesn't give a damn about you. If you want to know the truth - horses are dumb.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

The thing that I come across is that people think that I might actually be super aggressive, want-to-fight type in real life. The irony is that that's just not true, at all.

I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you."

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.

There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.

I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.