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Quotes About Reality

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
~ Voltaire
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
~ Jonas Salk
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
~ William Ralph Inge
Christ's lordship is a blessed hope for some & a terrifying nightmare for others. Regardless of our response, it is an unalterable reality.
~ Paul Washer
I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.
~ Johnny Ramone
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
~ Jim Horning
Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.
~ Akira Toriyama
Faith is the courage to face reality with hope.
~ Robert H. Schuller
The blues aren't pessimistic. We're prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.
~ Cornel West
The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.
~ Giacomo Casanova
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.
~ Bertrand Russell
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
~ Margaret Atwood
Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.
~ Ogden Nash
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.
~ Ze Frank
Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
~ L. J. Cardinal Suenens
I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't
~ Derren Brown
The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.
~ Jan Brett
Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.
~ James Agee
There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.
~ Sue Miller
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
~ Charles Ives
[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.
~ Aristotle