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
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
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'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 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
“And when I fall in love,” I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
I have been called romantic. Well, that can't be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Sci-fi works for me as a way of getting across a social conceit couched as entertainment. Social realist movies lost their way… — Miguel Sapochnik 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 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
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
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'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
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
Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed… — Joseph Roth 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
To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic"… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
