Reality Quotes

Dreams look real, but they're in your mind, so you realize that the physical world is also a construction, which shows that the mind can affect reality in more ways than you can imagine.

~ Stephen Laberge

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

~ Robert Collier

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

~ Tracy Morgan

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

~ John Le Carré

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

~ John Mccain

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

~ Elon Musk

If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises.

~ George Müller

When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own Brandy doll, and was the first African American to play Disney princess Cinderella. Most importantly, she is a survivor. Many only judge and remember a person's most recent failure.

~ Niecy Nash

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

~ Eckhart Tolle

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

~ Jessica Valenti

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

~ Philip K. Dick

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

~ Edward Sapir

In the past, before phones and the Internet, all communication was face-to-face. Now, most of it is digital, via emails and messaging services. If people were to start using virtual reality, it would almost come full circle.

~ Palmer Luckey

I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.

~ Hillary Clinton

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

~ Jean-François Lyotard

I've been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.

~ Peyton Manning

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

~ Ricky Williams

While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

~ Chris Hardwick

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

~ Robert Anton Wilson

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

When we are fully conscious and aware, we actually know when we are about to overreact. When we are mindful, we have the mental space and are aware of when our moods change. When we are mindful, we are aware of when our mental models are being challenged and when expectation does not meet with reality, which can trigger an emotional response.

~ Elizabeth Thornton

Thor is magical, yes, but it is the magic of reality. His hammer was crafted 'in the heart of a dying star,' but so were you! Most of the atoms that make you up are in fact the innards of a ball of gas in space that got so heavy that it exploded. Stars died so that you could live, as physicist Lawrence Krauss would say.

~ Kyle Hill

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

~ Carl Friedrich Gauß

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

~ Daisaku Ikeda

When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.

~ John Yarmuth

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

~ Douglas Rushkoff

It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.

~ Paul Di Filippo

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.

~ Stephen Root

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

~ Ralph Marston

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

~ Deepak Chopra

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

~ Pindar

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

~ David Friedrich Strauss

Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

~ Dana Goodyear

I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.

~ Matt Haig

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

~ Lauryn Hill

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

~ Tom Felton

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

~ Tom Felton

There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.

~ Geri Halliwell

When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

~ Chris Evert