Mugged By Reality Quotes & Sayings

Hunt while you can. The weather may change tomorrow. — Debra Doyle

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges. — Irving Kristol

The Trevanian Buff is a strange and wonderful creature: an outsider, a natural elitist, not so much a cynic as an idealist mugged by reality, not just one of those who march to a different drummer, but the solo drummer in a parade of one. — Trevanian

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way. — George P. Shultz

I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan. — Javier Bardem

No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life
the first twenty years of it
had about them something semi-fictitious. — Elizabeth Bowen

Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness. — Laozi

For you have been deluded by Saruman. Many of you have got death as the reward of your trust in him; but had you conquered, little better would your wages have been. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You can't touch the strippers. Why are you paying to not touch someone? That is weird. How do you win in that situation? That is like walking into a deli, starving, and being like, 'Here's $300 - can I stare at the roast beef? Better yet, I'll sit down in this chair and you can mash it around my mouth and balls. — Chris Hardwick

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself. — Frank Langella

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show. — Rob Corddry

I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared. — Kelly Rowland

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs. — David Beckham

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.' — Frank Gaffney

The man that wars and judges others is eternally lost. The man that wars and judges himself is eternally found. — Jason Versey

I am not sure if we are numbed to the reality of rape, but here's the sad irony. While the word rape can add an edginess to your language, talking about actual rape is taboo. I didn't know this until one of my friends was raped. Then I knew this, because I didn't want to tell anyone. If she were mugged, I would have told everyone and raged. — Christine Stockton

The computers are in control. We just live in their world. — Danny Hillis

Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do better than a good sound beating. (Walker 2000: 34) — Alice Walker

At the 'Times,' all journalists on every subject followed the same rules and were supposed to meet the same standards, so I never really thought about fashion writing as being in a bubble. — Suzy Menkes

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality. — Irving Kristol