I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
“I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in… — Crystal Woods Copy Share Image
“There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
I'm a confident person in knowing my abilities, but also know, I'm kind of a realist, I know when I suck. — Mookie Betts Copy Share Image
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom. — William C. Wright Copy Share Image
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist. — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“He was realist enough to know he might never find the life partner he longed for, and dreamer enough not to quit… — Eden Winters Copy Share Image
I'm a realist, and I thought from the get-go that NATO expansion was going to lead to one heck of a lot… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I think what's happening is, it's all - fantasy, science fiction, ghosts, trolls, whatever - finally being called, being admitted to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist… — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
“The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth.… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
