I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us… — Tzipi Livni Copy Share Image
You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you've got to take… — Jason T. Smith Copy Share Image
A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live.… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.” — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. An optimist is neither… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's not logical. I don't know. I don't care. I've been asked didnt I think it odd that I should be… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“But since Catt was more realist than fabulist, she understood her actual death at the hands of her killer would be something… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be the champion, and I had belief in myself that I could achieve it. But along the way,… — Michael Bisping Copy Share Image
I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible. — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
“Yes I am a firm believer in Christ, and yes there is cussing and other sinful things in my writing, simply because… — Kimberly Humphreys Copy Share Image
“It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's… — Wolfgang Petersen Copy Share Image
There's a difference between being a realist and a pessimist and an optimist. I think I'm way more of a realist. — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
So-called 'realist' photography does not capture the 'what is.' Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth,… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic… — J.M. Richards Copy Share Image
I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder,… — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
I've never really played everyday people. I've played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to… — Sandrine Bonnaire Copy Share Image
Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists. — Heywood Hale Broun Copy Share Image
I feel like a realist about Hollywood. To be cynical about it is to some degree fair, but I don't think it's… — Ti West Copy Share Image
Despite the mythic heights to which he was raised, Azikiwe was nothing if not pragmatic, a realist always conscious of his limits… — Nnamdi Azikiwe Copy Share Image
