realities quotes

Commitment seems to live more in the poetry of our aspirations than in the prose of the realities we have created.

- Mario Matthew Cuomo
  In the NewYork Times,18 Nov.

We are dealing in facts, not realities.

- Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz Goldwyn
Attributed. Quoted in  A Scott Berg Goldwyn (1989).