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Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

You create your own reality.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality.

I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.

So a lot of me is still a little kid, and I think that kind of helps alter my sense of reality - it makes me able to just become Belle every single night.

I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

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.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.