The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. — Claude McKay Copy Share Image
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“...the evils against which we contend are frequently the fruits of illusions which are similar to our own.” — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“monism that moved on into a flourishing school called Neo-Realism. If a piece of chalk is dropped on the lecture table, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
A lot of television shows, when you see births, the baby is coming out, and the wife is freaking, 'You did this… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books,… — Lisa Papademetriou Copy Share Image
“Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“The message from too many Democrats and Republicans alike remains that we should not let facts get in the way of our… — John Hulsman Copy Share Image
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
If you want to be treated like a princess, first you gotta start acting like one. You gotta earn that right. If… — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth. — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one. — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
Giving up is not being coward. You are just realistic with what you can and what you cannot. — Yvonne Urlanda Copy Share Image
I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.” — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I use people's real voices because I want realism. So often I mention the actors' physicality because I want it to be… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the violence in a game should serve the gameplay. If it doesn’t, then it’s gratuitous and you should consider doing without… — Ernest Adams Copy Share Image
“He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Don't spend your time examining some else personality because that moment can be better spent examining yourself and analysing whether you're closer… — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
There are over 7,000,000,000 or 7 billion people on this planet called Earth with each person saying millions of things for 3… — MrAwesome Copy Share Image
I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image