Realist Life Quotes

#1. Optimism was for children. Once you reached adulthood then you had to join the rest of the world as a realist - life was a bag of shit you were expected to pay for.

NikNak

#2. Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.

C. JoyBell C.

#3. You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

George Santayana

#4. Life is an experiment; so keep a realist and believe in miracles.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#5. I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#6. Oh - once in your life you find someone
Who will turn your world around
Bring you up when you're feelin' down
Ya - nothin' could change what you mean to me
Oh there's lots that I could say
But just hold me now
Cause our love will light the way

Bryan Adams

#7. To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!

Criss Jami

#8. One - about cigarettes - I was pleased to see that anticigarette ad on the back issue of Hustler. I'm more offended by seeing ads for cigarettes in magazines than pictures of vaginas, because one kills and the other gives life - and I think that's an important difference.

Paul Krassner

#9. Empty threats are for dreamers. And I fancy myself a realist.

Natalya Vorobyova

#10. While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

Gregory Maguire

#11. There's probably no one who's more of a realist than the unpopular loner. I have lived my life with the Three Nevers of the Unpopular: Never to hold (hope), Never to open (your heart), and Never to treasure (sweet words).

Wataru Watari

#12. I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.

Gene Roddenberry

#13. When a man comes to your house with a bag full of money, he certainly has seen more in your backyard than in the bag.

M.F. Moonzajer

#14. We can only give away to others what we have inside ourselves.

Wayne Dyer

#15. I guess we need to keep adjusting our dreams to fit reality, because life is not going to cooperate. Maybe this makes me a defeatist, but I'd prefer to think of myself as realist.

Cassia Leo

#16. I've never really played everyday people. I've played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters.

Sandrine Bonnaire

#17. I'm not a cynic. I am a realist.

Sonya Watson

#18. The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

Kate Forsyth

#19. I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

Anthony Jeselnik

#20. I like presenting ambiguous situations. It seems to me a great part of our inner and outer lives are ambiguous, if we're honest about it. Maybe I'm a realist, in that respect.

Eric Basso

#21. I think now we are simply strangers with some memories.

Tan Redding

#22. Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#23. Life is always full of drama and challenges, but you don't have to overreact to any of it if you choose not to.

Sonia Choquette

#24. I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws

Alex Gaskarth

#25. Unless life also gives you water and sugar, your lemonade will suck. - A realist.

R.K. Lilley

#26. 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

#27. I'm a realist, but sometimes I find myself floating in fantasy.

Brittany Perloff

#28. The understanding of fear cures fear.

Robert Anthony

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. To think critically, it is first maturing and distancing a bit from self, no matter what level one lives on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Pearl Zhu

#33. I understand loud and clearly, with my sound mind

Andrea L'Artiste

#34. I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

Olga Korbut