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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. -- Jack Welch
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. -- Malcolm X
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about. -- Antonia Bird
My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions. -- Kenneth Chenault
Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. -- Desiderius Erasmus
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. -- King Hussein
How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! -- Hortense Odlum
Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are. -- Ben Gibbard
Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general. -- John Ortberg
Imagination is so much harder to face than reality. -- Mabel Seeley
Tomorrow changes the face of reality. -- Philip Jose Farmer
One and all have to face reality now. -- Bob Marley
Reality is for people who can't face drugs. -- Laurence J. Peter
Faith is the courage to face reality with hope. -- Robert H. Schuller
Frosties are just Cornflakes for people who can't face reality. -- Mark Corrigan
What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness. -- David Steindl-Rast
THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality. -- George Mikes
As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality. -- Brad Warner
It is not good news, but we have to face reality. -- Pascal Lamy
We see this as a test of their ability to face reality. -- Brian Johnson
Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality! -- Harold Sherman
You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it -- Brent Weeks
The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face. -- Karen Marie Moning
Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you dont want to face. -- Melissa McBride
Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face. -- Melissa McBride
Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face. -- Demetri Martin
I think when you're really stressed out and can't really face reality... you shop. -- Rachel Zoe
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion. -- Judith Guest
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. -- Martin Esslin
Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face. -- T.F. Hodge
Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be. -- Esther Hicks
It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality. -- Andrzej Wajda
You must act in the face of reality, never taking counsel of you own worst fears. -- Sandy Woodward
Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard. -- Alexandra Bracken
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition. -- Michel Onfray
You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to. -- Billy Beane
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today. -- William Hague
Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor. -- John Dickinson
It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was. -- Halle Berry
As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime. -- Raymond Kelly
Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face? -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality. -- Thomas Sowell
He needs to get a hard slap of reality in the face every once in a while. He has an arrogant side. -- Robbie Savage
Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it. -- Hsing Yun
Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality. -- Garrison Keillor
The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet. -- Jeffrey Sachs
In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations. -- Bradford Cox
Success is for those who are persistent in the face of reality. The harsher the truth, the stronger they hold on to their dreams. -- Pooja Ruprell
Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face. -- Frank Medlicott
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth." -- Publilius Syrus
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering. -- Richard Dawkins
Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death. -- Billy Graham
She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie) -- Margaret Mitchell
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. -- Publilius Syrus
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. -- Publilius Syrus
There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality. -- Tony Blair
Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view. -- Jack Welch
The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience. -- Warren Spector
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face. -- Liza Minnelli
I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality. -- Fionnula Flanagan
What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset. -- Pete Townshend
We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them. -- John Henrik Clarke
When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality. -- Renee Olstead
I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality. -- Vanessa Carlton
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. -- Desiderius Erasmus
The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition. -- Kim Young-sam
Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written. -- Paulo Coelho
We face now an era where we're going to be fighting the terrorist threat. I mean, that's simply a reality we are going to have to address that one. -- James Mattis
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. -- King Hussein
You have to face reality, and coming off 4-12, you're not going to be the national draw you were previously. But for 13 years, we were a pretty good draw. -- Bob Harlan
Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth. -- Alexander Pope

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