The history of arms control is a history of great visions eventually mugged by reality.

-Adelman, Kenneth Lee
  In Newsweek,1 Dec.

There is an awesome reality to Rent Day. It comes trumpeting, forcing the days before it into a wild scramble.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
The Heart of a Woman, ch.3.

   We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.

-Ayer, SirAlfred Jules
  Language, Truth and Logic, ch.1.

The choice is not between dream and reality; it is between two different dreams.

-Banks, Iain Menzies
  The Bridge, coda.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

-Bell, (Arthur) Clive Howard
  Art, pt.1, ch.3.

Everywhere the sea is a teacher of truth. I am not sure that the best thing I find in sailing is not this salt of reality.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
c.1910  The Cruise of the Nona.

America hasjust passedthrough†an eight-yearcoma in which slogans were confused with solutions and rhetoric passed for reality.

-Bentsen, Lloyd Millard,Jr
  Recalling the Reagan administration as he accepted the Democratic nomination for Vice-President, 21  Jul.

Reality is what I see, not what you see.

-Wilson
  In the Sunday Times Magazine,18 Dec.

The existence of St Sophia is atmospheric; that of St Peter's, overpowering, imminently substantial.One is a church to God; the other a salon for his agents.One is consecrated to reality, the other to illusion. St Sophia, in fact, is large, and St Peter's is vilely, tragically small.

-Byron, Robert
  The Byzantine Achievement.

It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  Orthodoxy, ch.3.

Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  The Unquiet Grave, pt.1.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

-Connor, Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra
Under Western Eyes, prologue.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

-Dick, Philip K(indred)
  Quoted in introduction to I Hope I Shall  Arrive Soon (1986).

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulationof words.If youcan control themeaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

-Dick, Philip K(indred)
  I Hope I Shall  Arrive Soon,'How To Build  A Universe That Doesn't Fall  Apart Two Days Later'.

As faras the laws of mathematics refer to reality, theyare not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

-Einstein, Albert
Quoted in Fritjof Capra The Tao of Physics (1975), ch.2.

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the shadow.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'The Hollow Men'.

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Burnt Norton', pt.1.

Le colonialisme accule le peuple domine¤   a'   se poser constamment la question: 'Qui suis-je en re¤  alite¤  ?' Colonialism forces the people it dominates to ask themselves the question constantly: 'In reality, who am I?' f

-Fanon, Frantz Omar
Les Damne¤  s de la terre ( The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington,1965), ch.5,'Colonial War and Mental Disorders'.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

-Feynman, Richard P(hillips)
  What DoYOU CareWhat Other People Think?

A naked lunch is natural to us, we eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.

-Ginsberg, Allen
  'On Burroughs'  Work'.