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But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction.
An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.
Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal? When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on you?
Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.
What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.
No matter how people try to dispute it, perception is reality. Its what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.
Interstate highways dull the reality of place and distance almost as effectively as jetliners do: I loathe their scary monotony.
We expect to make about 500,000-600,000 more. Our initial goal was one million, but in reality we will probably make a bit less.
If reality TV is bad, so is Colosseum, so are the gladiators, so are sports. I think cricket is bad. But that's a point of view.
I like to ground plays in reality so they can jump higher. So we can account for the trampoline, so we can account for the leap.
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
I don't try to represent myself in a way that's not connected with my everyday reality, because I'm not smart enough to do that.
I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.
When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it’s because He loves us, He sometimes says no.
I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.
Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.
On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Traders focus almost entirely on where to enter a trade. In reality, the entry size is often more important than the entry price
When you suffer a loss, there is before the death and after the death - those become your two existences and your two realities.
One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings.
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.
There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when in reality I'm not.
There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality.
To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.
The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
That's the reality of it. Everybody has a big two or three. The health of those big two or three ... there's a lot riding on it.
Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.
I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
Fashion is a mirror of the era in which we live. Why should the magazine be disconnected from reality? It's not like in the past.
Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.