Best Realist Sayings

145 Realist quotes by 127 unique authors

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist. — Clay Aiken
In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I want no part of peace with savages who throw acid on and gun down young girls going to school. I would prefer to crush… — Allen West
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is… — William Arthur Ward
What reality was ever made by realists? — Richard Flanagan
Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist! — Lori Greiner
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire… — Warren W. Wiersbe
I am a realist. I expect miracles. — Wayne Dyer
I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist. — Elisabeth Rohm
In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination. — Robert Breault
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream.… — Tony Kushner
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin
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. One is a… — Studs Terkel
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The… — Benjamin Graham
I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist. — Soe Hok Gie
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create… — Cameron Sinclair
An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. — Cameron Sinclair
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism… — William Ernest Henley
The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light… — Sydney J. Harris
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty,… — William McFee
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there. — Daniel Woodrell
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the… — Lee Kuan Yew
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I… — Alan Lightman
I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to… — Todd Gitlin

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