Quotes About Reality

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

The problem is that the Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul stuff may feel good, but none of that typical stuff helps when somebody in your neighborhood is murdered.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

We're not like the American administration, we're not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we'll announce it.

I don't think any government has the means to protect us from the world reality.

We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact that he's still got teeth and claws.

Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.

There is no such thing as a false idea.

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.