A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.
Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They're not devils. They're not monsters. They're human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life.
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
This is how dictatorships always behave: they deny reality; they deny crises.
Reality TV is a totally different animal than the infomercial world.
I'm not a big crier normally, but when I see people having life-changing experiences on reality shows, that's a different story.
For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.
You're not going to be able to deliver jobs locally unless you sort out the nation's problems, and that's why the big and difficult decisions about Ireland's economy have been so crucial and so difficult for people to have to accept and have to deal with, but the reality is the people gave this government an unprecedented mandate.
I want more girls' nights, more dinner parties, more date nights, more nights on the couch with zucchini fries watching bad reality television.
The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.
In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis.
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.
You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.
We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
