To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat – those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers – struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war. – Stanley Hauerwas
I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful. – Sean Parker
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. – Tom Waits
When you’re 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you’re in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It’s like being underwater; everything is different. – Wes Anderson
I always look for the writers and what they’re creating. If it’s something I don’t buy, it’s really hard for me to play it. To me, it has to be grounded in some sort of reality. It’s really hard to go to these extreme places if they’re not grounded. – Sarah Clarke
That’s the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they’ve never been before. The details, that’s what the world is made of. – Wes Anderson
Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think about how people interact with their phones; how they consume content and how they share. – Ze Frank
Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality. – Stephen LaBerge
When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren’t expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn’t seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset. – Wallace Shawn
One win, and you’re on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you’re back to reality. – Sania Mirza
I knew that if I were the best in the world, my reality could change. I was always the person who didn’t conform to the idea of ‘halfway.’ – Terezinha Guilhermina
For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor’s graveyard. I feel like I should wait and create my own projects… do independent movies before I would have to go and do reality shows. Or produce one and come up with one on my own! – Tamala Jones
When you translate a dream into reality, it’s never a full implementation. It is easier to dream than to do. – Shai Agassi
The ‘Road Rules’ thing was just something that happened. It was never like when I was little I said, ‘I want to be on a reality show when I grow up.’ They didn’t even have them then, you know? – Theo Von
Like sugar and, oh – let’s say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs – credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive. – Tom Shales
I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn’t even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game. – Steve Sabol
All of the reality TV I’ve done has usually been simultaneously an opportunity to create awareness or raise funds for my mom’s breast cancer organization. – Stephen Baldwin
I’ve got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else’. So there’s the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration. – Todd Rundgren
There’s a lot more people out there than you would think who cannot differentiate between TV and reality. I do think there’s a lot of people out there who think I’m a nasty human being. – Torrey DeVitto
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers… It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. – Samuel Gompers
In reality, if there are 200 people commenting on something online, it’s less than a grain of salt in a huge beach of humanity – who cares? – Suki Waterhouse
What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be. – Stephen LaBerge
Here’s the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god. – Tim Wise