Dose Of Reality Quotes:

I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

- Hulk Hogan

topic: Real, Cutting, Two, Dose Of Reality

The minute you walk through the door and your kid runs into your arms, you're smacked in the face with a dose of reality: It's like, this is my real life.

- Faith Hill

source: "We Love Faith Hill". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2006.

topic: Running, Real, Kids, Dose Of Reality

Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.

- Mandy Moore

source: "Fighting Malaria With Nets" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2011.

topic: Country, Reality, Healthy, Malaria, Dose Of Reality

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

- Alan Moore

topic: Reality, Doe, Looks, Dose Of Reality

In fact, he's never taken an interest in a woman before. I was beginning to to suspect he might prefer one of his male sneaks, but now..." She paused dramatically. "Now, we have the lovely, intelligent Yelena to get Valek's cold heart pumping." "You really should get out of your sewing room more. You need fresh air and a dose of reality," I said knowing better than to believe a word Dilana said, but unable to control the silly little grin on my face. Her sweet, melodious laughter followed me into the hallway. "You know I'm right, " she called.

- Maria V. Snyder

source: Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.169, Harlequin

topic: Sweet, Laughter, Believe, Dose Of Reality, Knowing Better

While Bradshaw applauded McNabb for playing hurt, he offered this dose of reality for the Eagles If he doesn't stay healthy, it's over, ... What are you going to do You roll the dice.

- Terry Bradshaw

topic: Hurt, Reality, Eagles, Dose Of Reality

I think for a while now people have been scared to be out of TMT the commonly used acronym for technology-media-telecom stocks, which have tended to rise in tandem recently and the feeling has really been you have to be there...but now we're getting a dose of reality.

- Peter Oppenheimer

topic: Technology, Reality, Thinking, Tandem, Dose Of Reality

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

- Bill Griffith

topic: Reality, Attention, Way, Attention Span, Dose Of Reality

Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?

- Graham Swift

source: Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

topic: Country, Strong, Children, Dose Of Reality, Fatalism