Jonathan Maberry Quotes

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

We have to accept the world as it is, not as we'd have it to be.

But what is to be done? Is it possible to infect ourselves on purpose just in order to have the satisfaction of dying beautifully and tranquilly? No! What is to be done? We must live while we are alive, eat dry bread if there is no roast beef, know many women if it is not possible to love a woman, and, in general, we must not dream about orange trees and palms, when under foot are snowdrifts and the cold tundra.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.

I don't want to live in a fantasy world.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

It is best to live however one can be.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

We must face the facts as we find them, not as we may wish them.

One has to view things realistically.

I'm just kind of taking what I get and making the best out of it, honestly.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.

Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned.

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.