Realistic Quotes

510 Realistic quotes by 442 unique authors

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness. — Rick Yancey
Steve has a reality distortion field.” When Hertzfeld looked puzzled, Tribble elaborated. “In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything.… — Walter Isaacson
I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real… — Haruki Murakami
That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly… — Aldous Huxley
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With… — Walt Disney
Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out. — J. G. Ballard
I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new dream,… — Stephenie Meyer
Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what… — Chuck Klosterman
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men… — Audre Lorde
My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the… — Tracey Emin
I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first… — Anais Nin
Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good. — Elizabeth Wein
You shouldn't been pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. But you… — Rihanna
If we do have realistic confidence ... if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to… — Nathaniel Branden
If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good. — Bernard Crick
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume… — Dave Barry
If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad. — Mary McCarthy
One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by… — Richard Nelson Bolles
I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside… — Daniel Suarez
I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic. — Justin Kirk
We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way. — Tom Weston-Jones
The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films. — Arjun Rampal
I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more. — Madhur Bhandarkar
Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating. — John Lasseter

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