Realistic Quotes

510 Realistic quotes by 442 unique authors

It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well,… — Rachel Zoe
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the… — Julian Baggini
I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where… — Neill Blomkamp
I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot… — Vir Das
Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place… — Marcel Proust
Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it… — Flannery O'Connor
Be realistic, demand the impossible! — Che Guevara
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping — Peggy Noonan
A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order… — Clifford D. Simak
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle — Rajneesh
It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to… — Philip Jose Farmer
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and… — Michel Houellebecq
A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a… — Louis L'Amour
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas… — Viktor E. Frankl
Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic. — Ray Bradbury
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and… — Douglas Coupland
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying… — Orson Welles
Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or… — Haruki Murakami
While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I… — Chelsea Handler
Thank you,” Simon said. “It’s a joke, Isabelle. He’s the Count. He likes counting. You know. ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One chocolate… — Cassandra Clare
believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic. — Seth Godin
We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic. — Hugh Prather
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must… — Judith Lewis Herman
You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super… — Haruki Murakami

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