Quotes About Reality

While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland.

What we call reality is a subset of accessible spaces.

And aspirations will come up against an ineluctable reality—today's energy system, which is more than 80 percent based on oil, natural gas, and coal, with a huge embedded investment in infrastructure and supply chains—all of which will be required to meet the energy needed during the recovery period and get back on the economic growth track (see Figure 3).

This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home. Or they went o? to Egypt and told you that they weren't a commitment kind of guy after six years. That was real life. Not a guy like Marc. Or the marquis.

An acceptance of life as it really was, rather than trying to force it to be what one wanted, and it never could be.

open your eyes for us Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it's not too exciting

He may not have been her Prince Charming, but he had definitely just exposed himself as Prince Shit.

Sadly enough, one rarely marries the candlelight and champagne. One marries instead the blue jeans and rumpled t-shirts, the Coca Cola and burnt toast, and one puts away the candlelight and champagne in a magic box. In the long run, I guess Coca Cola and burnt toast are easier to live with

This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home.

Because the one thing I hate about hope - the one thing I despise about it, that no one ever seems to admit about it- is that suddenly having hope is the easiest route to sudden hopelessness there is.

5'10 I seem 5'8 I seem 6'2 I seem dead.

this empty act could no more be mistaken for a mother's touch than the wind that fills out some dress on a clothesline might be confused with an actual body.

Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn't?

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!

We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.

They got so accustomed to the false alarms that when she did eventually die, they did not realize it, and she lay there twenty minutes, serene in my embrace, smiling blankly at me.

Lo que pasa con la vida real es que, cuando haces alguna estupidez, sueles acabar pagándola. En los libros, los protagonistas pueden cometer tantos errores como quieran. No importa lo que hagan, porque al final todo sale bien. Derrotan a los malos, arreglan las cosas y todo acaba guay.

Appearances, Darren, she said. Never let them fool you.

People have an amazing ability to cope with the madness of life. It's called denial. It'll take you a good mile, but only if life's horrors stay on the page of the newspaper where they belong.

She's cute, but she's cuckoo. She wouldn't be his daughter if she wasn't. You can't tell how much of what she says is what she thinks. And you can't tell how much of what she thinks ever really happened.

Almost half of the people over 40 believe they look younger than they are. This says something important about older Americans. We have terrible eyesight.