John Henry Newman Quotes

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

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

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

And that’s the way it is

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

Some things you can't control.

You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.

There are some things in the world we can't change.

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

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

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

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

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

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

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

We need realism to deal with reality.

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

Time and events bring out the truth, but they also deal a mortal blow.