#reality

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on. ↗

— Dave Attell

#boring #get #going #i #imagination

I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point. ↗

— David Axelrod

#appreciate #becomes #believe #came #caricature

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#almost #becoming #century #everything #fiction

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#already #because #does #external #fiction

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#discontinuity #fluidity #live #reality #which

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#common sense #dreams #earth #exist #little

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#day #every #every day #experimental #forever

The truth has a way of changing a person's plans. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#life #reality #truth #change

What is different is not necessarily dangerous, and what is similar is not always secure. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#quotes-to-live-by #death

There really is something raw about sexuality that's real and good and we must continue to learn to not be ashamed of it. But - we have to honor the reality of practicing safer sex. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#ashamed #continue #good #honor #learn