#realities

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dimly #dreams #man #realities #seems

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#into #made #many #realities #reality

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#fiction #out #own #realities #science

Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

#aggression #arab #arab countries #between #change

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people. ↗

— Matthew Continetti

#economic security #economy #ensuring #global #global economy

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#between #contrast #democracy #forever #heroic

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#connect #even #excite #getting #handed

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#lucky #million #realities #solitary #totally

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#abstract #already #apparent #become #dreams

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#child #children #i #must #our