Quotes About Reality

Ordered it with whipped cream, of course. When it arrived at the table, I saw no trace of the stuff. After I told the waiter that my cocoa had no whipped cream, he asserted I couldn't see it because it sank to the bottom. But whipped cream has low density, and floats on all liquids that humans consume. So I offered the waiter two possible explanations: either somebody forgot to add the whipped cream to my hot cocoa or the universal laws of physics were different in his restaurant.

First, get your facts straight. Then, distort them at your leisure.

En otras palabras, después de las leyes de la física, lo demás es una opinión.

Objective truths apply to all people, places, and things, as well as all animals, vegetables, and minerals. Some of these truths apply across all of space and time. They are true even when you don't believe in them.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

In fairy tales, love strikes like lightning. In real life, lightning burns. It can even kill you.

I discovered this when Cruise had his personal Scientology liaison bring a heavy red book to the table. He opened it to the Scientology code of honor, and we discussed it point by point—set a good example, fulfill your obligations, never need praise or approval or sympathy, don't compromise your own reality. When

But the truth is that the fantasy is often better than the reality. I had just learned that lesson. Most men eventually learn that lesson. Mystery may have thought he wanted to live with two girls who love each other as much as they love him, but chances are they'd get on his nerves, team up against him, and eventually make him just as miserable as he'd been with Katya.

We must take into account all reality and strive for a balanced answer to our problems.

Unlike concerned parents who may be tempted to isolate their children from the harsh realities of this world, Jesus does not ask that we be removed.

In Desh, you can make your plans, but they usually do not succeed. But in America you make your plans and then they happen.

Once again she had the disorientating feeling that her past was still happening, unfolding in a parallel stream right alongside her present.

And yet in the short space of half an hour all of life had changed, lost its color, its vividness, its whole meaning. No, she reflected, it wasn't that that had happened. Life about her, apparently, went on exactly as before.

And the beauty of leaning on the wisdom of God, of trusting, gave her a queer sort of satisfaction. Faith was really quite easy. One had only to yield. To ask no questions. The more weary, the more weak, she became, the easier it was. Her religion was to her a kind of protective coloring, shielding her from the cruel light of an unbearable reality.

Well, no one ever said the truth would make you happy—only free.

The first casualty of war is the truth.

nodded, "A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

You know what an idealist is? That's a man who notices that a rose smells better than a cabbage, so he thinks the rose will make a better soup.

I'd obviously fallen hard, but the reality was that we had not a single thing going for us outside of Cuba. Holiday romance can be intense, but as the old song said, too many moonlight kisses seem to cool in the warmth of the sun

Memories about the past are always about the present.

Pravda, as you know, means 'truth,' and Izvestia means 'news,' and I've heard it said that there is no news in the Truth and no truth in the News.

Até então julgara-se feliz e, de repente, descobre que sua felicidade não existe

She had known for some time that his wife and family were very real to him, more real by far than the half-life in a far corner of the world that had been forced upon him since the war.

Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfillment.