Quotes About Reality

It is these conceptual categories of incorporatior gunji{~/iterc and resister gunfighters and not the mythical categories of' hero and villain that are the keys to unlocking the reality behind the myth of the American as gunfighter.

You can't fool Mother Nature, and you can't fool market forces (at least not for long)

I have a life. A real one. And not all of it is with you.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.

There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tell lies. You write lies that tell truths.

Our culture's quest to hide death behind a facade of denial has made fools and pretended immortals of us all. Perhaps it would be more helpful and liberating to begin each day by repeating the words of Crazy Horse, "Today is a good day to die.

We can deny reality, but we can't deny the consequences of denying reality.

We all have two stories---the journal of our life evnets, and the fiction we tell ourselves about them. Charles James's Diary

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be

most people don't want truth. They want confirmation.

Before you judge me too harshly, consider your own deepest fears - real or imagined. Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.

All gold does not glitter.

Or take fame for instance. For one brief moment, a man finds himself on a throne. And for a while he believes himself specialã…¡a little bit better than everyone else. But then he discovers that his throne is just another seat in an ongoing game of musical chairs and eventually he's gong to lose his place. Sometimes he spends the rest of his life trying to get back to the chair.

Consider your own deepest fears-real or imagined. Actually all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.

If someone says something that has no basis in truth, it doesn't bother us much. It's the things we fear they might be right about that hurt.

But that is how it is in the world—the wise are hung and the fools are glorified, at least while they are living.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

Iti petreci viata construind tot felul de fantezii romantice.Nu te astepti din partea cavalerului sa te arunce de pe cal la o aruncatura de bat de castel.

But people have no idea what time is. They think it's a line, spinning out from three seconds behind them, then vanishing just as fast into the three seconds of fog just ahead. They can't see that time is one spreading ring wrapped around another, outward and outward until the thinnest skin of Now depends for its being on the enormous mass of everything that has already died.

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.