#realities

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#blown #charges #into #kind #press

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#dangerous #escape #face #facts #frequently

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

Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#bank #could #current #demographic #east

The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see. ↗

— Matthew Continetti

#beltway #borrows #budget #eye #far

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#human #human imagination #imagination #measure #realities

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#among #bible #bliss #complex #damnation

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

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