We are evolving as one species – not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality. – Gary Zukav
In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race. – Christina Hoff Sommers
In my head, I think I’d make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don’t think I’d fare very well. – Matthew Rhys
The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality. – Paulo Coelho
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. – Germaine Greer
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. – Frida Kahlo
Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality. – Diego Maradona
Sometimes when I flick through a magazine and see these thin models I’m left wondering what effect they can have on an insecure person. But I say to girls: forget what you see in the magazines, that is a world which has nothing to do with reality; think of it as a cartoon. – Elisabetta Canalis
I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world. – Michael Haneke
The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it. – Martin Parr
Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn’t do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you’re doing. That’s the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then. – Douglas Kirkland
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. – Daniel J. Boorstin
The pictures we saw before we got down here didn’t even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up. – Connie Sellecca
All of the problems we’re facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It’s called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn’t work in reality. – Michele Bachmann
I came into reality television with MTV’s show ‘The Real World,’ specifically the 1994 season set in San Francisco. I was glued to the Puck and Pedro drama. – Molly O’Keefe
Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality. – Malcolm Boyd
Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion. – Gerard Manley Hopkins
I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. – Milos Forman
An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world. – David A. Bednar
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. – Max Jacob
Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can’t do that. – NeNe Leakes
I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe. – George Takei
