Top 1200 Alternate Realities Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine - not Russia - attacked us in 2016.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally black portraiture with ballpoint pen ink. I'm looking for that in-between state in an individual where the overarching definition is lost. Skin as geography is the terrain I expand by emphasizing the specificity of blackness, where an individual’s subjectivity, various realities and experiences can be drawn onto the diverse topography of the epidermis. From there, the possibilities of portraying a fully-fledged person are endless.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

Being an alternate is probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do in gymnastics.

I hate when there's a deleted scene on a DVD with no explanation, or you have to go out of your way to find an alternate audio track.

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

Going international is my game. I've always wanted to do it, and after 'Aadukalam,' I got to meet Anurag Kashyap, the face of alternate Indian cinema to the world.

I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human.

In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

While other stone fruits grow tender on the surface as they ripen, apricots take an alternate path to maturity, softening from the inside out.

The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to alternate them.

There has been a concerted effort to frame caring about climate change and the environment as an alternate religion - one that worships the creation rather than the creator, so to speak.

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible.

The easy road is always under construction,so have an alternate route planned.

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

Is there an alternate role for the U.K. outside the E.U? I think absolutely there is. It shouldn't be something we should be worried about.

I've always loved that, on all the Dylan and Springsteen and Marley and Neil Young reissues that they've done: It's so cool to hear alternate versions and how the song started in their mind.

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.

Imagination is very important to having vision and trying to find things that are different, alternate ways.

We must always strive for greater heights at the town council level to continue building the public's confidence in alternate political leaders.

Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her “real” life.

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].

My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything fundamental.

I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton.

I entered what I can only describe as an alternate universe, and experienced timelessness for myself, first-hand. There was no refuting the immortality of the soul for me ever again after that.

Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.

With repetition, the alternate approaches become clear, options open.

There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.

The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.

I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.

I would sing to my Beanie Babies, and I sort of created this alternate universe where I was famous, and there were thousands of people that I was singing to.

Republicans can also point to an alternate path. They can draw upon genuine experts to explain what should be done.

It's always hard being an alternate. Knowing you might not be put in, but you have to work just as hard. It's stressful.

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.

Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.