Top 100 Face Reality Sayings
#1. 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
#2. One day we shall all face the truth and reality that we all hate.
Auliq Ice
#3. In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.
Lawrence Bossidy
#4. Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
Sherman Edwards
#5. The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis
only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.
Dag Hammarskjold
#6. You must act in the face of reality, never taking counsel of you own worst fears.
Sandy Woodward
#7. The train blows through town
delivering reality,
slapping my face and screaming,
"You are alone"
Rose colored memories drown,
taking their last breath.
Kellie Elmore
#8. 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
#9. I climbed the stairs and got back into bed, pulling a pillow over my face to block out the summer light. But there was no hiding from reality that morning.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#10. Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#11. There was also no character arc. Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story.
Donald Miller
#12. It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.
Halle Berry
#13. Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.
Leonard Binder
#14. I was either still dreaming or I had entered an alternate reality where I was a flippin' insane person. I doubted I had entered an alternate reality and a quick slap to my own face proved I wasn't still dreaming. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency
P.S. Martinez
#15. To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realize that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.
Ray Toro
#16. If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
Brett Armstrong
#17. You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it
Brent Weeks
#18. I have no choice but to face whatever my reality has become.
S.J. Watson
#19. Becca had only had to deal with technology and administration issues and had thus far been removed from danger while she was in training for the more serious assignments. As the newest, and smallest, employee at the Society, she was too young and innocent to face the grim reality, anyway.
Anne Marie Becker
#20. If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.
Alfred Noyes
#21. I think when you're really stressed out and can't really face reality ... you shop.
Rachel Zoe
#22. What all life has faced and experienced before you, you still have to face and experience yourself.
Marty Rubin
#24. You can learn more from failure than success. In failure you're forced to find out what part did not work. But in success you can believe everything you did was great, when in fact some parts may not have worked at all. Failure forces you to face reality.
Fred Brooks
#25. 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
#26. friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. HENRI NOUWEN
Laura Petherbridge
#27. Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be.
Esther Hicks
#28. I'd like to make a motion that we face reality. - BOB NEWHART, FROM THE BOB NEWHART SHOW
Melody Beattie
#29. Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
Henri Bergson
#30. We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.
Bryant McGill
#31. He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)
John Piper
#32. Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.
Bell Hooks
#33. Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.
William Glasser
#34. The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
Bertrand Russell
#35. The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.
John Edgar Park
#36. Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and to struggle with it until it reveals its mad, vari-implicated chaos, its false face, and so on until it surrenders its insight, its truth.
Ralph Ellison
#37. Unless we take the time to regain our perspective and face the reality that life is short, we risk arriving at a destination we didn't choose - or at least one we wouldn't prefer.
Michael Hyatt
#38. Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.
Antonia Bird
#39. Frosties are just Cornflakes for people who can't face reality.
Mark Corrigan
#40. Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.
Natalie Angier
#41. Reality is okay if you have a friend that will help you up when it comes around to smack you in the face.
Xena Thornton
#42. Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.
Alexandra Bracken
#43. The only reality you can control is the one you're willing to face.
Karen Marie Moning
#44. When you can face reality without camouflage, yours is the face of compassion. What a sight for sore eyes!
Karen Maezen Miller
#45. By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as a portrait by Stieglitz.
Sigmar Polke
#46. One and all have to face reality now.
Bob Marley
#47. As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality.
Brad Warner
#49. 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
#50. We see this as a test of their ability to face reality.
Brian Johnson
#51. There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett
#52. Some managers are able to let go of the past better than others. Those that have the greatest difficulty abandoning things are often those unable to face reality.
Henry Cloud
#53. Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!
Harold Sherman
#54. The minute you walk through the door and your kid runs into your arms, you're smacked in the face with a dose of reality: It's like, this is my real life.
Faith Hill
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.
Tupac Shakur
#59. I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.
Hillary Clinton
#60. We don't need to face our demons, we only need to face reality.
Marty Rubin
#61. Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.
Brennan Manning
#62. A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.
Gunter Grass
#63. Sometimes,things end even before they get started..
Pretty clear, they were not meant to happen or begin..
Cut the disappointment and look it in the face..
Even if it hurts,force a smile and lock it away..
For all the truth, there is nothing you can say..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#64. Only a few can survive and face reality without a vice.
Jacob Wild
#65. Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.
Melissa McBride
#66. So that, logically, in the brief time allotted to us, we should be as kind to one another as is humanly possible and face the harsh facts of reality without fear or flinching.
Michael Swanwick
#67. We humans are imperfect, but what makes us human is not are kind but our courage to overcome fear, our ability to turn imagination into reality, our hope to diminish despair, and have a smile on our face although we in a predicament.
Paranjay Malkan
#68. I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults - librarians, friends' parents - suggest to me that I liked books "with magic" because I wanted to escape from a reality that, by implication, I lacked the gumption to face.
Laura Miller
#69. You beg fate to make your fears into reality, Aleran. But for the moment, they are only fears. They may come. If so, then face them and overcome them. Until then, pay them no mind. You have enough to think on.
Jim Butcher
#70. The youth of Taiwan not only have to face the harsh reality of low wages and high commodity and housing prices, but due to the lack of employment opportunities, many young people are forced to leave their home towns to search for jobs in the cities.
Tsai Ing-wen
#71. Daydreaming is a way of escaping
from reality. But you can't avoid the
reality forever! Sooner or later you
have to wake up & face it!
Lily Amis
#72. You face reality, not the lights. The lights go off as quickly as they come on.
James Baldwin
#73. Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.
John Ashcroft
#74. 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
#76. The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us.
John Lennon
#77. When we come face-to-face with our fears we are really confronting ourselves.
Bryant McGill
#78. It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.
Francoise Sagan
#79. The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
Martin Esslin
#80. There's no reason for any of us to face reality if we don't like it.
Stephanie Rowe
#81. When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
Walter Lippmann
#82. Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?
Aysha Taryam
#83. We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.
Michael Sheen
#84. All that remained were poignant memories, and she must face reality, not live on dreams.
Elizabeth Chadwick
#85. We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
William Hague
#86. Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women ... they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.
Bell Hooks
#87. It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was the expression of a man who was methodically unplugging himself from reality, one cord at a time. The face of a man who was heading out of the blue and into the black.
Stephen King
#88. It is unwise to refuse to face reality; however if our reality is negative we can still have a positive attitude toward it.
Joyce Meyer
#89. 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
#90. We refuse to acknowledge something that is blatantly obvious because either we are closed or we don't know how to face it.
Santosh Sharma
#91. Love must face reality, if it is to survive
Jumping in the Puddles of Life
Loretta Livingstone
#92. We learn to face the reality and the pain of our loss, to say good-bye to the dead loved one, to restore ourselves, and to reinvest in life once again.
Judy Tatelbaum
#93. 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
#94. How to Face Reality: Don't! Everyone has the right to live in an imaginary world.
Robin Sacredfire
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. Was it better to die in the illusion of sunshine and warmth or face death in a cold darkness of reality? Was it better to die in happy ignorance or terrified knowledge? The answer, if you're a Londoner, is that it's better not to die at all.
Ben Aaronovitch
#98. 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
#99. The face of an innocent child is just a mask; if not properly taken care of, a beast can just be unleashed".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#100. If you think the worst you'll get the worst, but if you think the best ... "
"and then everything will blow up in your face anyway. Don't you get the punchline yet? Its the great cosmic practical joke: Knock knock, who's there? Big kick in the Ass.
Brad Meltzer
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