Harsh Reality Quotes

• Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Reality, Relief

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• Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

  Julian Fellowes

  Reality, False Hope, Harsh

  "Fictional character: Dr. Clarkson". "Downton Abbey (TV Series) Episode #5.6", www.imdb.com. 2014.

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  We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

  Judy Garland

  Dream, Reality, Imagination

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• Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

  Jorge Garcia

  Reality, People, Mixing

  "Jorge Garcia, the one-man Greek chorus who helped explain Lost" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

  Pras Michel

  Reality, Forever, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Reality, Addiction, Needs

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  We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.

  Tone Bell

  Reality, Joy, Realization

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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  Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

  Doris Brown Heritage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

  Manmohan Singh

  Reality, Community, Pakistan

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• The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Reality, Balance, Cold

  "NYC mayor paints bleak picture in 'doomsday' budget". www.cnn.com. April 15, 2003.

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• A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Independent, Reality, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

  Pete Domenici

  Country, Hockey, Reality

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• A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Book, Reality

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• Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Book, Reality, Diaries

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• Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Beautiful, Running, Reality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

  Noel Carroll

  Running, Self, Consciousness

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• Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.

  Steven Weber

  Cancer, Reality, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  Walter Bonatti

  Real, Climbing, Essence

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• The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd. This was the case with the story of the cat who roamed from one trench to another and in the film ended up being imprisoned. In reality, the tom cat was accused of spying and was arrested by the French army, and then shot according to regulations.

  Christian Carion

  Character, Cat, Army

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• Willy DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. And the harsh reality in his voice and phrasing is yesterday, today, and tomorrow - timeless in the same way that loneliness, no money, and troubles find each other and never quit for a minute.

  Doc Pomus

  Song, Loneliness, Ghetto

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• Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the harsh reality of his physical and spiritual limitations when he runs. He learns that personal commitment, sacrifice and determination are his only means to betterment. Runners get promoted only through self-conquest.

  Noel Coward

  Running, Spiritual, Determination

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• The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they take their kids to the doctor...and risk getting fired? Do they work weekends so they can afford to send their kids to better childcare...even though it means even less time with their families? Do they take another shift at work, so they can pay for piano lessons for their kids...even though it means they have to stop volunteering for the PTA? It just shouldn't be this difficult to raise healthy families.

  Michelle Obama

  Mean, Kids, Weekend

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• I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.

  Ray Lewis

  Football, Dream, Reality

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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