Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Reality is a sliding door.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

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

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don’t know.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, ‚I like your tie,‘ to a man… or, ‚I like your country because the weather’s good,‘ or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

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

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Oh my God – this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.