Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

Tycoon had a peddler’s talent for using words to redefine reality.

I don’t understand, Your Majesty. Of course, you don’t; you academics! Skarmak snarled. All you do is sit in your towers, trying to think your way into a reality that exists only in your own...

So now all of a sudden I’m faced with the reality that I can actually go enjoy the Open this year, because I’m doing a few things right, which is nice to feel, … Yeah,...

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

Fais de ta vie un rêve, et d’un rêve, une réalité.

As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he’s come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.

Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

Yesterday’s fairy tale is today’s fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

The reality is there are only 52 Saturdays in a year . . . It makes sense to look at the alternatives.

kuhang-kuha natin ang mga katarantaduhan ng hollyeood, pero hindi ang kaunting pagiging responsable ng mga kanluraning bansa sa isyu ng pagtayo sa sariling paa.

The real trouble with reality is that there is no background music.

And that’s when I heard the whisper in my heart’s ear: “It’s not about your childhood. It’s about who you are!

It’s not enough to say it; you would need to take it out of your mouth, you would need to become it. You would need to become what you were born to be. In actuality,...

No creer en lo sobrenatural es darle ventajas al demonio.

I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I could see through it. Inside she was crying because she was really very...

My family was my guide to my reality.

Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother...

Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our...

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn’t matter what they do, because everything...

I’m sure it’s not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.

A pretty building I’m making, without either bricks or timber. I’m up i’ the garret a’ready, and haven’t so much as dug the foundation.

…the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

humanity”, they cannot arrive at the Truth.

Live in your dream and then make it your reality.

We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream

The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become.

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

We own the things that claim that we are theirs.

Why spend a lifetime wishing for things a lot of people already possess in their lives? Your greatness lies in persistently going after your desires.

In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story,

I don’t pretend reality is the same for everyone.

as if” character of the world, they are actually realer than they appear.

In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think.

But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn’t going anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return. Was that so depressing?Who...

There’s and entire world outside these bleak pages, one full of SUNRISES and KITTY-CATS and late-night BURRITO RUNS and the horrible, creaking amble of us all towards DEATH. It is to that world that I...

It might interest you to know,” Tully says, “that there’s a reason people build miniatures. Doesn’t matter if it’s guys laying out model railroads or women decorating dollhouses. It’s about control. It’s about reinventing reality.”...

Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the...

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse – a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.

Magic is not what magicians can do, but what they can’t do.

Believe in your ability to create the future. That’s what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been...

Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.

It’s definitely scary. Every now and then it kind of brings you to reality. I mean, obviously offensive linemen are a lot bigger than they were required to be back in the day.

In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what she thought, though what is most untrustworthy about our natures and...

We noticed that, but in reality we have to take it one game at a time.

One thing that I think works in ‘Casablanca’ and which I’ve lectured a lot about – in terms of what I’ve been trying to achieve as a designer – is the film’s creation of its...