I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I'm a realist, but sometimes I find myself floating in fantasy.” — Brittany Perloff Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever been just like, happy with life. I live life as a realist. — Too Short Copy Share Image
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
With a lot of these social realist films, the first thing you do is drain the color. — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be… — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
While I support a more comprehensive bill and hope a more extensive package will eventually past the Senate, I also am a… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
“Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me whether I am an idealist or a dreamer. I'm neither. I consider myself an optimistic realist. I see… — Kate Miller Copy Share Image
Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have… — William James Copy Share Image
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Philosophers often think all scientists must be scientific realists. If you ask a simple question like "Are electrons real?" the answer will… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
“A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and… — Adam Roberts Copy Share Image
“I'm a realist, okay? I have been for a long time. I need to be, and you liking me-wanting to take me… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
