Quotes About Reality

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

You must come out into the real world and face these problems sensibly and maturely. These lavatories are just an adolescent escape-mechanism, like going to the pictures; they're a dream world. You must come to terms with things, and not expect too much.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

Dreams extended a real world danger into an imaginary one.

It is fascinating to see how politicians can become convinced of a material fact when it is actually only supposition.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Bad humour is an evasion of reality; good humour is an acceptance of it.

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

You track with the heart, not the eyes. The eyes are easily deceived; easiest thing in the world to show something that isn't true and make people believe it.

The truth is nothing more than something that you can prove happened.

I see America through the eyes of a victim. I don't see any American dream. I see an American nightmare.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

Everything after but is BullShit !

Her life's work was a fantastical pipe dream to the backers who had sanctioned the project but were now cutting back on what they considered frivolous expenditures.

Just remember, Callum when you're floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall.

That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.