Quotes about Reality

if the M.C.C. were to agree, in a thoughtless moment, that the ball must be so hit by the batsman that it should never come down to earth again, cricket would become an impossibility. A vivid sense of reality usually restrains sports committees from promulgating laws of this kind; other legislators occasionally lack this salutary realism.

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

I'm not Pollyanna. Nobody has a magic wand.

I never wanted to just glamorize the playa lifestyle and not touch on the down side. I wanted everyone who's in a desperate situation to know that, if they wanna choose that kinda lifestyle, they gotta be aware of everything that comes with it! It's not just about the cars, the ladies and the money.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.

All promise outruns performance.

What you see is what it is!

Often, the most dangerous deception was the one that looked the most like the truth.