Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be… — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
“Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me whether I am an idealist or a dreamer. I'm neither. I consider myself an optimistic realist. I see… — Kate Miller Copy Share Image
I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
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
In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
I'm a realist. I like to put it in business terms. I ran three different corporations my way and I was successful.… — Shaquille O'Neal 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
“This is not to say that power and security are the sole or even the most important objectives of mankind; as a… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a… — Truman Capote 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
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
The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud;… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're… — Katherine Heigl Copy Share Image
“When a man comes to your house with a bag full of money, he certainly has seen more in your backyard than… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to… — Sandrine Bonnaire Copy Share Image
“The simple truth is that nowhere in human history is there another man who combined so uniquely and effectively in his person… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist! — Lori Greiner Copy Share Image
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I'm painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it's because of my faith - I've always got the hope… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world.… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“The title of Realist was thrust upon me just as the title of Romantic was imposed upon the men of 1830. Titles… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Whenever I am in my videos, it's rare. A lot of it is, they feel more live and hyper-realist, rather than fantasy.… — Skrillex Copy Share Image
How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
“The idea that there is a “realist” faction in the debate over the size of the Smurfs ought to chill you to… — Conor Lastowka Copy Share Image
World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is… — Don Williams Copy Share Image
I'm a realist - yes, I know: darn, I'm unlikely to have a love scene with Chris Hemsworth anytime soon, if ever.… — Danielle Macdonald Copy Share Image
I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it's sad and… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
