Quotes About Reality

Accept what there is; don't think about what there is not.

I don't," he said bluntly. "But I saw that fiction"—he pronounced the word gingerly, as though it were something dangerous—"is perhaps not, as I had thought, merely an inducement to idleness and wicked fancy.

About "historians", family or otherwise:"Their greatest crime is that they presume to know what happened, how things come about, when they have only what the past chose to leave behind-for the most part, they think what they are meant to think and it's a rare one that sees what really happened, behind the smoke screen of artifacts and paper.

And the chief difference is this: that people will treat with disdain such phenomena as are proved by the evidence of the senses, and commonly experienced—while they will defend to the death the reality of a phenomenon which they have neither seen nor experienced. "Faith is as powerful a force as science," he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, "—but far more dangerous.

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

People think that money and fame fixes and changes so much. Money does give you assistance and resources in this life. But you think that life will become easier, and that's not necessarily true.

I don't think a lot of people - when they associate you with Hollywood, they don't want to think of you as normal. They want to hear, you know, all the stuff in Hollywood.

I'm sure there are people who associate Iona with what they want it to be but for me it's just a nice place.

I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that's not necessarily right.

I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be.

People always assume that, if you're an actor who's been on anything from which you're recognisable, that you're making all this money, and it's just not true.

People assume that acting is an easy job. When you actually do it, you know how hard that is.

Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

When I was younger, I always assumed that when I grew up, I would be living in the country, and my kids would be going to a state school. But that's not how things have turned out. I can't see myself being able to leave London.

Even my parents sort of went along with the assumption that they were a good couple, but they probably weren't a very good couple.

That's sort of what showbusiness is - a charade. People are basing their assumptions about you on half the facts. The rest of it just isn't true.

By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'

Spoiler alert: I did not become an astronaut.

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

Every athlete, I think, would like to play forever. They never want to acknowledge that they've lost a step or they can't quite do what they did before.

These guys, just because we're NBA athletes, we're not superhumans.

The UFC makes 80, and athletes make 20. That's what happens. That's the real story.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.