#reality

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#american dream #between #distance #dream #i

The reality for us in America is that we will never get out of debt with more than 15 million people out of work. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#debt #get #million #more #never

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#against #altogether #another #create #even

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#double #error #expression #face #illusion

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#best #common #imagination #over #primacy

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#hard lesson #lesson #reality #right #right things

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

#more #photography #real #reality #subtle

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#balance sheets #business #cash #earliest #fact

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know. ↗

— John le Carre

#been #being #complex #crisis #every

Reality is an acquired taste. ↗

— Robert Fritz

#acquired taste #reality #taste