Top 100 Quotes About Reality Check
#1. Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness - you're fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.
Suze Orman
#2. We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It's reality check time.
Gary Barlow
#3. Conscience exists as a reality-check for intent, but it's not intent itself. Anyone who really plays, explores and celebrates life has the right intent.
Darrell Calkins
#4. Somebody once told me that I need a reality check, I told them that I'll accept money from any source.
Neil Leckman
#5. As the inevitable discussion proceeds in the months ahead, this memo should provide both perspective and a reality check. President Bush's approval numbers will again fall back to more realistic levels fairly quickly. All were quite successful on Election Day.
Matthew Dowd
#6. Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.
Molly Ivins
#7. After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous.
Linda Evans
#8. It's one thing to see someone with cognitive trouble for a few days as a guest in your home or at quick, chaotic family celebrations. Actually living with him in his home is a whole other plane of reality check.
Paula Spencer Scott
#9. If you understand life, you need a reality check.
Paulo Coelho
#10. This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on.
Alan W. Black
#11. Nothing makes you appreciate life more then when you wake up from a nightmare and realize it was just that. It's a good reality check.
P.T. Michelle
#12. And honestly, I'm tired of knowing I have issues but having no clue how to rein them in on a given day. I need something simple. A quick reality check I can remember in the midst of the everyday messies.
Lysa TerKeurst
#13. At 40 years of age, I thought I knew everything. I got a reality check with this class. Kenny (Winston) has become like a big brother to me. We've learned to agree to disagree. I hope and pray that this program continues and we all keep in touch. I'm a st
Robert Hughes
#14. Never try to place STOP PAYMENT on a reality check!
Carlos Wallace
#15. The reckoning is how we walk into our story; the rumble is where we own it. The goal of the rumble is to get honest about the stories we're making up about our struggles, to revisit, challenge, and reality-check these narratives.
Brene Brown
#16. You can lie to yourself about all kinds of things. Until you can't, anymore. Until reality pounds a hole through your fantasy castle and the reality check must be cashed in.
Ann Aguirre
#17. I needed to get a handle on this girlish exhilaration. This girlish exhilaration needed a reality check. Maybe even a bitch-slap.
L. H. Cosway
#18. A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.
Aubrey Plaza
#19. I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check.
Madonna Ciccone
#20. By definition, a 'Sisterchick' is a 'friend who shares the deepest wonders of your heart, loves you like a sister, and gives you a reality check when you're being a brat.
Robin Jones Gunn
#21. I pay these niggas with a reality check ...
Lil' Wayne
#22. It's horrible. We had an eight-game win streak going. We were all high and happy and everything is good. It's kind of a reality check. We have to get back and start working again ... We just didn't bring it tonight.
Jared Jordan
#23. It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.
Russell Banks
#24. Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
Taylor Hanson
#26. I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.
Edward Burns
#27. It's time for us all to step up. We've been extremely successful, but to be honest it's a reality check for everybody.
Darren Campbell
#28. The reality is a reality check is an oxymoron
Tom Schafer
#29. Concentrate. Level the sight. Breathe in.
Ease the trigger. And relax?
BLAP! The can somersaulted across the sand.
Pride swelled till I thought I'd burst.
But my pride slipped at Dad's reality check.
Not bad. Pretty good, in fact. For a girl.
Ellen Hopkins
#30. It's a reality check. These other countries took it seriously. You have to realize that other countries play the game and that anything can happen in a three-game series. It's do, or die.
Eduardo Perez
#31. Some of us are looking at the stars, but all of us are living in the gutter.
Vann Chow
#32. And this," cried Darcy, as he walked with quick steps across the room, "is your opinion of me! This is the estimation in which you hold me! I thank you for explaining it so fully.
Jane Austen
#34. It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.
Alice Walsh
#35. Testing the wrong person can prove a massive failure for the antagonist.
Carlos Wallace
#36. Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
Sheri S. Tepper
#37. America is still AmeriKKKa. rather we like it or not
Fee Scott
#38. Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ight believe you.
Andre Maurois
#39. Where some saw a cold-hearted calculating slut, there was actually a girl who had done a lot of growing up to realise she should only get something of equal or greater value for everything she gave.
Alice Walsh
#40. Living is a constant process of debunking our romantic notions of how our personal life will unfold. Reality oftentimes fails to meet a person's glamorous expectations.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#41. I've learned through a series of trials and errors that the median space is actually what's missing in our daily walk.
Carlos Wallace
#42. If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still needs to be defended.
Martyn V. Halm
#43. We must realize that people do not have to conform to one another. We are after all, ultimately beholden to ourselves.
Carlos Wallace
#44. Emotional exhibitionism is one block away from whoring for attention.
Alice Walsh
#45. We live in a world with an ever-growing population. Personal space these days is at a premium. Physically, we are practically tripping over our fellow man. Mentally and spiritually, the divide among us seems to widen.
Carlos Wallace
#46. No one tells you that you should never settle for anything less than what you want.
Alice Walsh
#47. You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70)
Injap Sia
#48. Influence is everything, and guilt or innocence merely an academic question
Margaret Mitchell
#49. . . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)
Franz Werfel
#50. On a waiter's check pad," said Slartibartfast, "reality and unreality collide on such a fundamental level that each becomes the other and anything is possible, within certain parameters.
Douglas Adams
#51. We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.
Nenia Campbell
#52. Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.
Adam Savage
#53. Unplanned occurrences are reminders to check your tendency to think that you're the one in control. In reality, it's someone else....
It is a vivid reminder that in ministry, no matter how hard you work, ultimately it's God's work, not yours. All this puts our work in perspective.
James Martin
#54. Sometimes getting insane is all worth it, because sanity doesn't make sense all the time.
Sarvesh Jain
#55. You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#56. Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.
Stephen Colbert
#57. The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#58. No matter how successful or skilled you are, you will inevitably fail at many things in your work.
Todd Henry
#59. Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness.
William Shakespeare
#60. Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving ... AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intravenous drug use. It is simply an opportunistic virus that does what it has to do to stay alive.
Chris Crutcher
#62. Eople don't know how to be happy; they wouldn't know what to do with their lives if they woke up one morning and discovered they had everything they ever dreamt of.
Alice Walsh
#64. The Poets say you can live on love alone, but if that were true their books would be free.
Betsy Talbot
#65. When you were a little girl, Madam ... was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?
Andrew Sean Greer
#66. Yeah, I love your hateful messiahs and gods, as I cherish all idiots, and mad dogs.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#68. In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened, mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality.
Barbara Pym
#69. We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases
Thomas Browne
#70. Tears rolled down my face. When did this happen? Then I realized, they didn't changed, I changed. It happened when I lifted the veil clouding my mind and saw the truth surrounding me.
L.M. Fields
#71. They want you to express the way you FEEL ,but to be fair
In the moment that you'll be real, they will not even care
BT
#72. And that's when I heard the whisper in my heart's ear: It's not about your childhood. It's about who you are!
C. JoyBell C.
#73. Generalization is impossible. It is an insult.
Anneli Rufus
#77. People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.
Victor Hugo
#78. [ ... ] if you don't know what you're running away from, chances are you'll bring it along anywhere you go.
Alice Walsh
#79. Humans are mostly kind only to their own-self, and their own. To another being, they're mostly indifferent, if not inhumane.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#80. I like to work late because I don't like to work early - and I have to work sometime.
Rainbow Rowell
#81. It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.
After all Love is a Vern, it must be demonstrated genuinely.
Robert Junior
#82. If you want to be a successful writer you have to put your butt in the chair and your fingers on the keyboard and put words on the page. Even shitty words are better than no words. You can go back and fix them later.
Liliana Hart
#83. [..] being the most attractive rarely meant being the most beautiful
Alice Walsh
#84. People who've been hurt like hurting others [..]
Alice Walsh
#85. Today, people are inclined to think that the sincerity and fervency of one's beliefs are more important than the content. As long as we believe something honestly and strongly, we are told, then that is all that really matters. Reality is basically indifferent to how sincerely we believe something.
J.P. Moreland
#86. Out of all the things that look & bleed, the most bruised is a man who has seen his dreams crushed and experienced miserable hopelessness.
Parul Wadhwa
#87. Hope erodes slowly, over time, until you wake up one night at three o'clock in the morning and realize: I am not meant for that kind of thing.
Laura Zigman
#88. Do you know how many people would give anything for what you have? Not the fame or wealth - the opportunity to wake up tomorrow healthy, pain free and with a future stretching out before them?
Sarah Grimm
#89. [ ... ] It's not your job to fix the world; it's your job to live well. That's your birth right. Everyone knows it, but far too few people actually take to implementing it.
Alice Walsh
#90. If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
Lev Grossman
#92. One of the biggest challenge in life is to see things for what they are instead of what you want them to be.
Saahil Prem
#93. [..]the way you get her interested in you will also be the way you'll lose her [..]
Alice Walsh
#94. To be in love at my age would mean not to have learnt anything at all.
Alice Walsh
#95. Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#96. The thought of being whoever I want is a terrifying thing, because I have only ever been who everyone has wanted me to be.
Dianna Hardy
#97. You don't get to become someone's hero unless you are already another's monster.
Adhish Mazumder
#98. In the naivete of their youth, they believed Fate to be a kind mistress. None of them were prepared for the beast that was about to pick them up by the throats and shake them until their teeth rattled.
Melodie Ramone
#99. Then they show up at the door and the reality is that they are 5-foot-8, 240 pounds and have not run a mile in years. A background check is not going to help you with that.
Charlene Li
#100. Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.
Lou Reed
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