Reality Quotes - Page 103

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

A good poem is a contribution to reality.

In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.

Your very existence is evidence of your innate creativity. In every moment you are co-creating your reality through your thoughts, your intentions, your words and your actions.

I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a superior influence on the passions and imagination.

The romance of religion isn't nearly as beautiful as the reality of Christ.

Fear is the polio of the soul. Faith is the life based on unseen realities; it is the word become flesh.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.

We only want what success we can get despite encouraging others to share our general view about reality.

A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.

You can't simplify reality without understanding it first.

The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?

If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

Reality is always kinder than your thinking.

Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing thats going on every single day.

The reality is that we have one of lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth because so many people have given up on the political process. The reality is that there has been trillions of dollars of wealth going from the middle class in the last 30 years to the top 1/10th of 1 percent.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.