Political Realist Quotes

#1. A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.

Mary McCarthy

#2. I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

Tatiana Maslany

#3. Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

Rembrandt

#4. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything."

Haruki Murakami. "Kafka on the Shore.".

Haruki Murakami

#5. We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

Bernie Worrell

#6. I'm homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.

Brittany Howard

#7. The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

Dallas Willard

#8. it's so twisted, it's brilliant!

Colleen Hoover

#9. But nothing. Accept what's done, Louis, and follow your heart. We did what was right this time . . . at least, I hope to Christ it was right. Another time it could be wrong - wrong as hell.

Stephen King

#10. It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#11. The most important acts, both for the one who accomplishes them and for his fellow creatures, are those that have remote consequences.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. From Xbox in the previous generation to Xbox One, it's fundamentally transformed.

Satya Nadella

#13. My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.

Albert Einstein

#14. The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

Adam Smith

#15. It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.

Hedley Bull

#16. The pure rapture was apparent, although there were glimmers of what could only be described as an exorcism. He was simultaneously reaching for something yet trying to rid himself of it at the same time as he ran through a smooth and fast legato.

Jessica Topper