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  • Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

    Book   Reality   Diaries  
  • A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

  • It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.

    Sex   Women   Reality  
    Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.363, Columbia University Press
  • Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the harsh reality of his physical and spiritual limitations when he runs. He learns that personal commitment, sacrifice and determination are his only means to betterment. Runners get promoted only through self-conquest.

  • Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.

  • The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (excluding Newsweek) trumpet the benefits of hybrids and Ford and Toyota plan to lead the nation into a low-powered, high-mileage hybrid Utopia, the multitudes remain loyal to the gas-guzzling family bus in the driveway.

    Moving   Reality   Media  
  • Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

    Reality   People   Mixing  
    "Jorge Garcia, the one-man Greek chorus who helped explain Lost" by Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.
  • There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

    Reality   Forever   Lasts  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

    Sports   Book   Reality  
  • As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.

    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

    "Fictional character: Dr. Clarkson". "Downton Abbey (TV Series) Episode #5.6", www.imdb.com. 2014.
  • We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

  • The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they take their kids to the doctor...and risk getting fired? Do they work weekends so they can afford to send their kids to better childcare...even though it means even less time with their families? Do they take another shift at work, so they can pay for piano lessons for their kids...even though it means they have to stop volunteering for the PTA? It just shouldn't be this difficult to raise healthy families.

    Mean   Kids   Weekend  
  • We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

  • Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

  • Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 9/10 startups fail, which is a harsh reality in the world of entrepreneurship. However, I believe that such a high number of startups fail because they do not take the right steps necessary when building their business. The biggest challenge people have is building something that their target audience or niche really wants.

    Source: theimarketingcafe.com
  • I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.

    War   Loss   Reality  
    Katherine Paterson (2012). “Read for Your Life #21”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.

    "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.
  • The events inspired characters that truly existed, as well as fictitious people I had to invent. Sometimes the harsh reality was too much, too absurd. This was the case with the story of the cat who roamed from one trench to another and in the film ended up being imprisoned. In reality, the tom cat was accused of spying and was arrested by the French army, and then shot according to regulations.

    Character   Cat   Army  
  • I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I've taken a little beating behind it.

    Taken   Writing   Reality  
    Source: www.complex.com
  • Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

    Life   Reality   Relief  
  • For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

    Real   Climbing   Essence  
  • And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?

    Reality   Essence   Long  
    Lucinda Riley (2013). “The Lavender Garden: A Novel”, p.167, Simon and Schuster
  • The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

    Reality   Balance   Cold  
    "NYC mayor paints bleak picture in 'doomsday' budget". www.cnn.com. April 15, 2003.
  • There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.

  • It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

  • Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.

    Reality   Ugly   Harsh  
    "A Conversation About The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" moderated by Chee Pearlman, www.wired.com. January 01, 2001.
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