Reality Quotes

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas H. Everett

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Vincent Van Gogh

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Adam Savage, Mythbusters TV show

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - - That all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.

John A. Rassias

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.

William F. Buckley Jr.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore Harold White

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Walter Lippmann

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

Helen Luke

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink - Blot, you know.

Alan Watts

All the best stories are but one story in reality - - The story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

A. C. Benson

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

A plan is just a tangent vector on the manifold of reality.

"Scratch" Garrison

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

L. J. Suenens

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillo

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Hob Broun

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John W. Gardne

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Peter McWilliams

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Henry Kissinge

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Dr. Karl Menninge

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Tupac Shaku

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Barbara Garrison

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....

Ursala Lequin

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

Robert A. Bake

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Samuel Smiles