I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Hardheaded perfectionist sadly lives in his expectations. While open-minded realist happily lives... — Milana May 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
“I guess we need to keep adjusting our dreams to fit reality, because life is not going to cooperate. Maybe this makes… — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation;… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I think I'm a realist in terms of what I've gotten from darts. I never expected to get anything out of it… — John Part Copy Share Image
I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition… — Todd Gitlin 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
“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
“Where the realist would say, "One day Gregor Samsa woke up to the realization that he was like a cockroach," the expressionist… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas,… — Lawrence Kohlberg 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
[ 'American Dream' ] probably will [go] somewhere in Europe. You get 3000 entries [to] Sundance, and how many movies get [screened]?… — Janusz Kaminski 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
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
“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
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
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
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