Realist Quotes

Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible!

Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The visionary is the only realist.

Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.

The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.

You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!

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 and been burned.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.