Quotes About Reality

'American Honey' takes you into the feelings of a girl travelling through the United States while giddily in love. You see modern America through her intense feelings. But again and again the film pulls the rug out from under your feet - scenes never play out as you expect.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.

Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

I lived in a bubble: my whole entire military career where I thought that everything was perfect. And I thought that every time we went overseas and we fought for this country, we were doing it because we were trying to get other people a sliver of the greatness that we have here in the United States of America.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

We've all grown up with 'Ozzie and Harriet,' 'Father Knows Best,' 'Eight Is Enough.' White families have always represented the universal family.

People aren't universally heroic.

Surrounded by high-paid publicity people and professional ego massagers, movie stars, like politicians, almost invariably come to believe that they are nicer, more charming, and more beloved than they appear to be to a casual observer, and that their stories about their careers are universally fascinating.

The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp.