Reality Of The Situation Quotes

#1. Controversy What controversy This is reality. What I see is that no matter if you're a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you stand on, this is the reality of the situation - that people's families and their young kids are being affected.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#2. It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'

Ed Stoppard

#3. In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

Graciela Iturbide

#4. I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

Keith Miller

#5. I feel like those people who say they can bungee jump, but when they're actually standing on the bridge, the reality of the situation hits them in the face." "Yeah, never bungee jump. Reality isn't the only thing that hits you in the face.

Darynda Jones

#6. Slowly the reality of the situation sank in. He got his ass kicked, learned nothing, and got saved by a dumb dog and an old lady. If he lived long enough to report to Nancy back in Adrianglia, he would have to gloss over this part.

Ilona Andrews

#7. Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.

Chogyam Trungpa

#8. When you are dealing with something that's crazy, you still want actors to play characters and find the reality of the situation, no matter how absurd the situation is.

Drew Goddard

#9. Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.

Wayne Huizenga

#10. It's funny, people don't think of 'Cloverfield' as being restrained because it's a handycam movie, but the only reason it's a handycam movie is because that was supposed to be the reality of the situation.

Matt Reeves

#11. you can't feel it. And if He doesn't show up in your circumstances, it's the end of the road. As the reality of the situation sets in, you can't help but wonder if God really cares. You reason,

Cherie Hill

#12. Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it.

Colin Powell

#13. I did this.
The sudden reality of the situation sets in and I know that not only will I kill again, but I have doomed this poor soul to a life in the shadows, stalking his prey by the silver light of the full moon.
The corners of my mouth slants toward the heavens and I am smiling.

Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#14. I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really ... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.

Gus Van Sant

#15. Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.

James Lafferty

#16. Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream.

George Sand

#17. In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit , but as a limiting situation which they can transform.

Paulo Freire

#18. In a formal socialization, no one individual can stand without the other to rely on, regardless of the situation.

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#19. Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

Catherine Marshall

#20. Only those who see that the two sides of all phenomena, visible and invisible, are front and back or beginning and end of one reality can embrace any antagonistic situation, see its complementarity , and help others to do the same, thereby establishing peace and harmony.

George Ohsawa

#21. The difference is that instead of turning the reality of your situation into an excuse, a "No Excuses" mindset turns it into a purpose that will propel your career and your life beyond its current state.

Farshad Asl

#22. Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends. Any other assessment of the situation is mere idealism.

Jacques Ellul

#23. Until you will stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people we will not stop this fight. We are at war, and I am a soldier and now you too will taste the reality of this situation.

Mohamed Khan

#24. He was kind of a fringe NFL guy. Some people think in the right situation he might have stuck for a bunch of years. The reality is he didn't, and he took, I guess, chicken parts and made chicken salad.

Pat Sperduto

#25. The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting ...

Daniel Ellsberg

#26. Sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter.

Tammara Webber

#27. [Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness, but madness all the same.

Ernest Becker

#28. The abrupt reality of his situation was a depressing thought.

Jason Medina

#29. The reality of my situation quickly crushes any false hope that could seep into my head and poison what I know to be certain

J. Daniels

#30. The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation.

Sandra L. Schneider

#31. What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

Julian Barnes

#32. The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.

Hassan Nasrallah

#33. Marijuana allows one to take a breath and see the realities of a situation without the news beating their interpretation into our brains. Pot relaxes you.

Steven Machat

#34. A "No Excuses" mindset does recognize the reality of your situation, but its emphasis is not on how to validate the condition, instead, it should be on how to solve the challenge the situation describes.

Farshad Asl

#35. I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.

I. F. Stone

#36. Quantum jumping is the process by which a person envisions some desired result or state of being that is different from the existing situation - and by clearly observing that possibility and supplying sufficient energy, makes a leap into that alternate reality.

Cynthia Sue Larson

#37. He might not have control of this situation, but the illusion of control was more pressing than its reality.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#38. Travelers perceptions do not always reflect the reality of a situation, and ignorance is costing the industry billions.

Paul Dowling

#39. Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

Rollo May

#40. I've always been taught to just play the truth of the situation. If comedy comes out of that, or drama, whatever comes out of it, at least I'm playing the truth of the moment-to-moment reality.

Ving Rhames

#41. The perception of meaning, as I see it, more specifically boils down to becoming aware of a possibility against the background of reality or, to express it in plain words, to becoming aware of what can be done about a given situation.

Viktor E. Frankl

#42. Discernment is the ability to judge a situation accurately - to see the full reality of a situation, relationship, experience, or circumstance. It is the capacity to understand accurately and clearly what is, to see the truth of things as they are from God's viewpoint.

Charles F. Stanley

#43. The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

Eazy-E

#44. The situation is not about Hosni Mubarak, but the reality is now about Egypt, its present, the future of its sons, all Egyptians are in the same trench, therefore, we should continue our national dialogue That have already started in the spirit of groups but not enemies.

Hosni Mubarak

#45. In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme of my works. I am trying to ask, 'How does our society develop? What are the problems in our society? Where is our direction leading?'

Liu Bolin

#46. I'm infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.

Edward Albee

#47. Yet again I was reminded that the way in which things and events unfold does not always coincide with our expectations. Indeed, this fact of life - that there is often a gap between the way in which we perceive phenomena and the reality of a given situation - is the source of much unhappiness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#48. We can feel sorry for ourselves or we can put the work boots on and understand the situation and the reality of it all.

Marty Turco

#49. There was no denying the reality of this situation. The exquisite ecstasy of having an honest-to-God, flesh-and-blood c#ck inside. Dream symbolisms and explanations be damned. This was bliss.

Jess Dee

#50. I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

Gabourey Sidibe

#51. Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire

Eleanor Roosevelt

#52. My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

Vint Cerf

#53. Everything begins in thought and the reality is only our interpretation of the situation.

Marshall Sylver

#54. A brief silence followed, during which the reality of my present situation crashed over me.

I was alone. I was alone with Cletus Winston. I was alone with Cletus Winston and no one knew where I was.

Oh. Shit.

Penny Reid

#55. To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#56. If you understand our salary cap, you have to be logical. If Barry Sanders , for instance, came out of retirement, if we were interested we probably couldn't get real interested. So you've got to temper your enthusiasm with the reality of our situation.

Jon Gruden

#57. Trust means you anchor your heart in the reality of God's awareness of your situation.

James MacDonald

#58. Its the reality of a situation like this that when you have a large troop presence that it has the tendency to fuel the insurgency, because they can make the incorrect and unfair claim that somehow the United States is here to occupy this country, which of course is not true.

Russ Feingold

#59. You may be able to look beyond the reality of our situation and imagine some other outcome, but all I ever saw, all I ever see, is a reminder that our lives aren't our own.

Sara Raasch

#60. I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.

Wolfgang Petersen

#61. Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality ... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection ... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

Jean Tinguely

#62. Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.

Nicholson Baker