Reality Quotes

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.

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

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.

If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxing those jobs at a rate that makes them noncompetitive in those markets, the reality is that we're going to lose business.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.