“A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.” — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore. — Moby Copy Share Image
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I'm an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best. — Trixie Mattel Copy Share Image
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety. — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
“I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is watching.” — J.M. Richards Copy Share Image
I'm a realist, I live right here on planet Earth and I know what's real. — Jared Cannonier Copy Share Image
In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“She [Samantha Lyle] was a realist, someone who knew choices were meant to be made, and that one must suffer the consequences… — Ayr Bray Copy Share Image
“How a painter treats this edge is the real subject of realist painting; how the brush behaves in the vicinity of an… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die?… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But he could not help it. No one can help it. One is a realist. One has put up with it all… — Halldor Laxness Copy Share Image
For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
The reclusive man who marries the gregarious woman, the timid woman who marries the courageous man, the idealist who marries the realist… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“The present realist bases his work upon types. Miss Bronte took the individual individually; we now take the mass representatively. Who would… — Henry Bonnell Copy Share Image
“Valuing names as they do, Realists are sparing with them. They are likely to be known only as Joe or Bill or… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing,… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I'm a realist, so I tend to look at life, well, not through rose-colored glasses, let's put it that way. I thought,… — Amanda Bearse Copy Share Image
I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has never learned from History.” — Philippe de Montebello Copy Share Image
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I'm a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end… — Tichina Arnold Copy Share Image
But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
I want no part of peace with savages who throw acid on and gun down young girls going to school. I would… — Allen West Copy Share Image
The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with… — Rene Huyghe Copy Share Image
Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
A state department official once told me this about the role of the president. He said: "We wage war for realist reasons,… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
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