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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better. -- Oscar Wilde
Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To grasp, to carry out the diktat of images to the letter. -- Claude Cahun
We live in our fantasies and endure our realities. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities. -- Robert Anton Wilson
We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute. -- Marina Abramovic
Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing. -- Bill Gates
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. -- Willa Cather
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. -- Margaret Fuller
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. -- Dr. Seuss
There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world. -- Sarah Lacy
Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept. -- Stephen Kinzer
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. -- Wilhelm Reich
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology. -- Kurt Bills
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. -- James Allen
Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago. -- Jonathan Carroll
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. -- Dr. Seuss
It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities. -- Sonia Gandhi
All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. -- Chaim Potok
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion. -- Virginia Postrel
Online, you're providing each other with the good aspects of being together as far as communication and support, but you don't have to deal with the realities of paying bills together, or being annoyed when they leave the toilet seat up or don't put the food away in the fridge. -- Nev Schulman
We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. -- Philip K. Dick
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts. -- Ernestine Rose
Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God. -- Lucy Larcom
Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip. -- Eckhart Tolle
Today's decisions are tomorrow's realities. -- Tim Storey
Your perspectives change your realities. -- Bryant McGill
Remembrances last longer than present realities. -- Jean Paul
What is life without incompatible realities? -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Contentment achieve inwardly change outer realities -- Kishore Bansal
Leadership is about creating new realities. -- Peter Senge
Invisible things are the only realities. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Politics is about realities, not logic. -- Bashar al-Assad
Imagination is preview of realities of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Cultures are virtual realities made of language. -- Terence McKenna
Tomorrow's realities come from our beliefs today. -- Tom Krause
Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities. -- Frank Herbert
Sometimes our fantasies are better than our realities. -- Jenna Alatari
Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities. -- Aesop
A single fantasy can transform a million realities. -- Maya Angelou
Your imagination is a wonderland full of realities. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
People's realities are the result of their perceptions. -- Karen Wojcik Berner
Your imagination s a wonderland full of realities. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Show is not substance; realities govern wise men. -- William Penn
Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities. -- Winston Churchill
My father taught me how to substitute realities. -- Mira Sorvino
All realities, all dimensions are open to me! -- Prince
Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea. -- Virginia Woolf
Plans turn promises into results and dreams into realities. -- Ron Kaufman
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities. -- Gene Wolfe
He simply contemplated human realities from a divine perspective. -- Salvador Bernal
Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities. -- Emile Durkheim
Essentially Flight is just an adventure of multiple realities. -- Vanna Bonta
Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
We must for dear life make our own counter-realities. -- Henry James
The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams. -- Auguste Rodin
Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet. -- Scott Adams
I feel very strongly that I'm surrounded by other realities. -- Ingmar Bergman
What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities. -- Alfred Korzybski
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Awakening is dynamic, Constantly evolving in accordance with life's realities -- Taitetsu Unno
Narrow streets are beautiful because you are closer to the realities! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. -- Barbara Tuchman
Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests. -- Stephen Kinzer
Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities. -- H. L. Mencken
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel. -- Paul Theroux
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten. -- Victor Hugo
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. -- Theodore Sturgeon
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract -- William James
Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph. -- Max Lucado
Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities. -- Saint Augustine
Truth is something believed in heart.Fact is anything happened in realities. -- Toba Beta
Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities. -- R. D. Laing
Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow. -- Walt Disney
Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company. -- Saul Bass
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. -- Iain Banks
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life. -- Benjamin Cardozo
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. -- Richard Wright
The imagination is a dream factory of which realities are a by-product. -- Richard Wilkins
Art comes to life when emotions dance with thoughts on realities stage. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
We had to move forward after the war and see the realities. -- Joschka Fischer
It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions. -- Anna Quindlen
Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion. -- Orrin Woodward
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. -- Isabel Allende
Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities. -- Orrin Woodward
I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities. -- James Dashner
Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own. -- Goswami Kriyananda
Wisdom is creating connections between the current perceptual realities with future imaginative possibilities. -- Debasish Mridha
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. -- Maya Angelou
Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears. -- Pope Francis
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. -- Nicholas Sparks
Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality. -- Wendy Kaminer
Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities. -- Fred Tomaselli
Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. -- Christopher Morley
Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change? -- Pope Benedict XVI
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. -- Rem Koolhaas
The more my dream are fulfilled the quicklier they become realities losing their shine. -- Ai Yazawa
Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities. -- Francois Hollande
Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire. -- Emma Goldman
The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die, -- Oscar de la Renta
Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them. -- Emmanuelle Beart
And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities. -- Edith Wharton
You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities. -- Paul Watson
The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities--mob rule. -- Polybius
Thought is not reality; yet it is through Thought that our realities are created. -- Sydney Banks
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next! -- Jules Verne
Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound. -- Ralph Vaughan Williams
New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter. -- Ariel Gore
Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities. -- Adeline Yen Mah
Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before. -- Louise Imogen Guiney
Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain. -- William Godwin
He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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