harsh truths Quotes

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.

Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

People don't like to hear the truth out here cause the truth makes them think.

It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

So much of comedy happens between your chin and your shoulders. Nobody tells you when you get your own TV show that you're going to watch yourself in the edit room over and over and over again. It's a tough lesson.

We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.

In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

Life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant.

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.

It's nice to start journeys pleasantly, even when you know they won't end that way.