- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality Quotes
What's real depends on where you're standing.
This set weighs reality against illusion, touching on digital-age facts that can't be hidden, the difference between a screen character and the actor playing tough, and why escapist fantasy still appeals. For adjacent emotional ground, see our Pain quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
- Who
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creation's gold mine is in you. The key is deliberate intention. Whatever your dream may be at this moment, identify it. If you cannot define your desire, it can never become a reality.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel in love with holography, which is that you don't have to wear anything or carry anything. It is augmented reality, if you will.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won't do 'Strictly' or any of those ghastly reality programmes. 'I'm a Celebrity' would be the end. It makes me shudder.
- Missed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020