This is too much reality for a Friday.
?As Good As It Gets
Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.
?Albert Einstein
Given that external reality is a fiction,
the writer's role is almost superfluous.
He does not need to invent the fiction
because it is already there.
?J. G. Ballard
There are intangible realities which float
near us, formless and without words;
realities which no one has thought out,
and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
?Natalie Clifford Barney
One might speak to great length of
the three corners of realitywhat was seen,
what was thought to be seen,
and what was thought ought to be seen.
?Marvel Bell
The reality of life is that your perceptions --
right or wrong -- influence everything else
you do. When you get a proper perspective
of your perceptions, you may be surprised
how many other things fall into place.
?Roger Birkman
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality,
instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
?Victor Daniels
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
?Fyodor Dostoevski
How hard it is, sometimes,
to trust the evidence of one's senses!
How reluctantly the
mind consents to reality.
?Norman Douglas
A cause a day keeps reality away.
?Jim Fraser
The stupendous fact that we
stand in the midst of reality will
always be something far more
wonderful than anything we do.
?Erich Gutkind
It has sometimes been said that
we find nowhere in nature an
analogue of the difference between
"happens" and "is,"on the one hand,
and "ought," on the other hand.
?Wolfgang Kohler
People see the world not
as it is, but as they are.
?Al Lee
Take things as they are.
Punch when you have to punch.
Kick when you have to kick.
?Bruce Lee
The camera makes everyone a tourist
in other people's reality,
and eventually in one's own.
?Susan Sontag
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
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
You're not to be so blind with
patriotism that you can't face reality.
Wrong is wrong,
no matter who does it or says it.
?Malcolm X
Set up as an ideal the facing
of reality as honestly
and as cheerfully as possible.
?Dr Karl Menninger
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 Kissinger
There is only one admirable form of
the imagination: the imagination
that is so intense that it creates a new
reality, that it makes things happen.
?Sean O'Faolain
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
?John Lennon
The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing.
?Abraham Lincoln
Your goals, minus your doubts,
equal your reality.
?Ralph Marston
Reality is something you rise above.
?Liza Minnelli
A theory must be tempered with reality.
?Nehru
It takes only one other person to say it's so-
one other point of reality to make something real.
?Mal Pancoast
As far as the laws of mathematics
refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain,
they do not refer to reality.
?Albert Einstein
Imagination is the one weapon
in the war against reality.
?Jules de Gaultier
Reality is that which,
when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away.
?Philip K Dick
For a successful technology,
reality must take precedence
over public relations,
for Nature cannot be fooled.
?Richard Feynman
I believe in looking reality
straight in the eye and denying it.
?Garrison Keillor
Realism...
has no more to do with
reality than anything else.
?Hob Broun
Reality is the leading cause of
stress for those in touch with it.
?Jack Wagner
Reality is for people who
can't face drugs.
?Laurence J. Peter
Reality is a question of perspective;
the further you get from the past,
the more concrete and plausible it seems --
but as you approach the present,
it inevitably seems incredible.
?Salman Rushdie
The realist is the man, who having weighed
all the visible factors in a given situation
and having found that the odds are against him,
decides that fighting is useless.
?Raoul De Sales
In nature, the emphasis is in what is
rather than what ought to be.
?Huston Smith
What our eyes behold may well be the text
of life but one's meditations on the text
and the disclosures of these meditations
are no less a part of the structure of reality.
?Wallace Stevens
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
?Lily Tomlin
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough.
Joys are found in it, not pleasure.
What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
?Simone Weil
