Quotes About Reality

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Economic, financial, and political predictors… are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients—and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.

E quando si vedono le cose future con tanta chiarezza, come già stessero succedendo, allora è segno che non devono succedere mai. Perchè son già successe, in un certo senso, nella nostra testa, e non è più consentito di provarle davvero.

Our dreams are never realized and as soon as we see them betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality. No sooner do we see them betrayed than we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.

Giving a girl the impression that girlhood is an extended bounce on Barney's knee is like prepping a young gazelle for life on the Serengeti by dipping it in cream.

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

LIFE IS NOT ORDERLY. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

Happy?" He stared her down. "You can't expect happiness. If it comes along—consider yourself lucky, but that's not what life's about.

Writing is 100% listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you write, it pours out of you. if you can capture that reality around you, your writing needs nothing else.

Dreams are another slice of reality, not different from where we are now—they just tell about it in a different way. They also can open up your reality. They don't have the constraints of conscious logic.

Programming is your spirit, software is your mind, hardware is your body and your physical reality.

?nimy we ?nie, ?nimy na jawie. Nieustannie tkwi?c w stanie snu, ?nimy nieraz, ?e si? budzimy.

I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.

[On the Hollywood studio system:] A sargasso of the imagination!

He did not feel guilty. He did not feel. The rock was a solidification of his feeling, his conscience, his sense of reality, his self-knowledge.

Being with her was like being backstage during an amateurish, ridiculous play. From in front, the stupid lines and grotesque situations would have made him squirm with annoyance, but because he saw the perspiring stagehands and the wires that held up the tawdry summerhouse with its tangle of paper flowers, he accepted everything and was anxious for it to succeed.

Men have always fought their misery with dreams. Although dreams were once powerful, they have been made puerile by the movies, radio and newspapers. Among many betrayals, this is the worst.

There is only one reality--the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive.

I thought I was losing my mind. The only way I knew I was still sane was that I thought I might be going crazy. Surely, that awareness meant I was sane. Crazy people think they're sane. Only sane people can thing they're crazy. I was reduced to taking comfort in a tautology.

Worst of all were the accolades and thanks from people "for what you guys did over there." Thanks for what, I wanted to ask—shooting kids, cowering in terror behind a berm, dropping artillery on people's homes?

Infantry Marines live only and forever in the real world.

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.