#reality

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#communication #essentially #illusion #imagine #incidental

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#ever #languages #reality #representing #same

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#each #feels #grief #imagine #joy

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#dream #hope #impossible #reality #say

I would only ever be involved in a reality show that was about real life and had lots of action. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#action #ever #had #i #involved

I have failed to continue to set an example for a secure, loving family unit as an example for our children. That is the reality of it. There is no way of getting around it. ↗

— Seal

#children #continue #example #failed #family

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#devour #i #leave #me #reality

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hurt #imagination #more #often #reality

Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#basis #classical #contrary #countries #expect

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects. ↗

— Ed Smith

#because #beyond #blacks #burden #civil