Reality Quotes - Page 268

Nous sommes tous oblige s, pour rendre la re alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable.

How paradoxical it is to search reality for the pictures that are stored in one's memory.

Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.

We do not have it out there as a distant dream. This could actually be reality.

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.

You know that we are lost when babies are addicted to drugs when they are born.

Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.

You believe you can make it every year. You don't think it's going to end. But the reality is that most teams, you end up in, you end up out.

Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either.

The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, dreams that never became a reality, hopes and aspirations that were never acted upon.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.

You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

Real religion is no religion at all.

Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history’s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities.