More quotations tagged with “reality”
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
—Pablo Picasso
Reality is something you rise above.
—Mary Chase
Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.
—Jules de Gaultier
Realism… has no more to do with reality than anything else.
—Hob Broun
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
—Henry Kissinger