Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here, we can… — Colin Powell 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
I don't personally consider myself Dr. Doom. I call myself Dr. Realist, even though it's less exciting and more boring than being… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“You get started on something and you go where it takes you and you set aside other things because you don't have… — Sam Winston 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
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
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
The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict. — Frank Bruno Copy Share Image
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Hardheaded perfectionist sadly lives in his expectations. While open-minded realist happily lives... — Milana May Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm an idealist. I'm a realist. And I see the progress. The progress has been remarkable. Look at the… — Benjamin B. Ferencz 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'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
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
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
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
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
I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I have a theory that as human beings get older, chemicals are released into the brain to prepare us for the end.… — Kris D'Agostino Copy Share Image
