Top 72 I Am A Realist Quotes
#2. I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'
Jessica Chastain
#4. I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.
Jean Alesi
#5. 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 work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.
Todd Gitlin
#6. I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.
Lee Kuan Yew
#7. You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.
Ransom Riggs
#8. For my part ... I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
Pierre Trudeau
#9. This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
Warren Rudman
#10. You're not a realist," she says. "You're a dreamer who doesn't believe in the dream.
Leah Stewart
#11. A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.
Frances Parkinson Keyes
#13. 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 I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.
Joyce Carol Oates
#14. All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one.
David Mitchell
#15. 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 a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
Cameron Sinclair
#16. A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.
Adam Roberts
#17. So-called 'realist' photography does not capture the 'what is.' Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.
Jean Baudrillard
#18. He was realist enough to know he might never find the life partner he longed for, and dreamer enough not to quit looking
Eden Winters
#19. While I support a more comprehensive bill and hope a more extensive package will eventually past the Senate, I also am a realist and know that we must not let the perfect bill be the enemy of real reform.
John McCain
#20. How cold the vacancy
When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist
First sees reality. The mortal no
Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.
Wallace Stevens
#21. I would love to be on a Real Housewives from somewhere reality show. Then I could show all those women how the rest of our society gets to do it.
Heather Chapple
#22. A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
Beau Willimon
#23. You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
Sydney J. Harris
#24. America: A place where Realists have the freedom to be Idealists.
Dortha Jackson
#25. Someone told me I'm a cynical fatalist but I prefer the term realist.
Wade Kelly
#26. The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won't stop a missile, though. It won't alter the trajectory of a gauss round.
James S.A. Corey
#27. I'm a realist, but sometimes I find myself floating in fantasy.
Brittany Perloff
#28. Just that I'm not a realist,' he said, and then: 'No, only the romanticist preserves the things worth preserving.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#29. Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They both have more or less the same effect on the observer.
Gerhard Richter
#30. The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
Cormac McCarthy
#31. I have a theory that as human beings get older, chemicals are released into the brain to prepare us for the end. Sort of like how the nurse lubes your ass up before the anus-cam. It makes the whole thing a lot easier to swallow. Easier, not enjoyable.
Kris D'Agostino
#32. A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.
Christina Stead
#33. Why are we born? 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 realist if one hopes.
Studs Terkel
#35. I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has never learned from History.
Philippe De Montebello
#36. What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.
Gore Vidal
#37. The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.
Colm Toibin
#38. I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
Roger Moore
#39. Whenever I am in my videos, it's rare. A lot of it is, they feel more live and hyper-realist, rather than fantasy. People would just be like, "Oh, Skrillex is acting in this video," and it wouldn't work as well.
Skrillex
#40. First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
Ellen Glasgow
#41. The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.
Frank Bruno
#42. Men are not realists - only women are.
Mae West
#44. Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset.
Jack McDevitt
#45. Evelyn: ...Don't take my negativity for lack of self-confidence. I'm just a realist.
Maddie: Realistically dumb.
Rachel Hera
#46. I am a scientist, and therefore an absolute realist.
Rick Yancey
#47. I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.
Olga Korbut
#48. 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
#49. From oriole to crow, note the decline
In music. Crow is realist. But, then,
Oriole, also, may be realist.
Wallace Stevens
#50. I have remarked elsewhere that I regard the Almighty as not a bad novelist, except that He is a realist.
John Barth
#51. 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 them and kill them wherever they exist. That's not being a warmonger. It's being a realist.
Allen West
#52. For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fed lying somewhere out of sight.
Zack W. Van
#53. When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.
Phyllis Bottome
#54. It always felt like I had to be a realist.
Jack Tatum
#55. Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
Bertolt Brecht
#56. It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#57. It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
Julien Benda
#58. Any discussion between idealist and realist would never end.
Toba Beta
#59. Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.
William C. Wright
#60. I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.
Telly Savalas
#62. realist works I look for detail; 'Look at the eyelashes!
David Nicholls
#63. I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much.
Tiffany Reisz
#64. 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, faster; where negativity is not an option.
Akshay Kumar
#65. I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret.
Margaret George
#66. I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.
Kevin Hart
#67. i'm a realist, miss randall. if you show me a glass, i see it as neither half-empty nor half-full. i see enough water to drown a man, if i can find a way to put it in his lungs.
D.L. Snell
#69. A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
Benjamin Disraeli
#70. I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.
Andre Kertesz
#71. I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#72. I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.
Paul Auster
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