Quotes About Reality

The most important thing is to simultaneously deal with reality - really the way it is, not the way you wished it could be or you hoped it could be - but also have a vision about where you want to go.

I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.

I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false - because hope is the nub of what we are.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.

There's a part of me that wishes no one knew anything about me, but it's just not realistic.

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality.

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking.

But only a candidate who rejects wishful thinking, has the courage to tell the truth about the options in front of us and who will address Brexit on the basis of the hard realities will succeed.

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking.

As foreign attacks increase, it's easy to treat them like bad weather happening somewhere else. It's what we read over breakfast. But when that storm hits your shores, remember this: Wishful thinking never saved a single life. The truth, however, has.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the reality I was filming would conform to my narrative propriety. But you can't control it.

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

Don't spend time wishing your life away, waiting for things to be perfect.