John Henry Newman Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Facts are better than dreams.

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

I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.

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.

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

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

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

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

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

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.