Quotes About Reality

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show.

You have to fight for respect. In life, even cashiers at the supermarket, if they're women, they're differently treated. It's a reality. The reality is not nice; it's not pretty.

Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can't do that.

The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice.

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love with the reality of your own life.

I've seen it all before. Now that it's over I shoulda known better than to think this was real and you could be mine.

I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.

I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.