Top 100 Unrealistic Quotes
#1. What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time?
Lysa TerKeurst
#2. I didn't apply to any colleges - I lied to all my friends and told them I was going to UCSD, because all their parents would be like, 'Mark, where're you going to college?' and I'd just lie 'cause I felt it was unrealistic to be an actor.
Mark Ruffalo
#3. How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
Marcus Aurelius
#4. Never' is an unquantifiable and unrealistic amount of time.
Ruth Cardello
#5. The neurotic is aware of the danger of a situation in which his unrealistic self-affirmation is broken down and no realistic self-affirmation takes its place.
Paul Tillich
#6. Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.
Ethan Zuckerman
#7. I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.
Stephen Harper
#8. It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.
Helen Gurley Brown
#9. Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.
Steven Pressfield
#10. You're an excellent judge of character, Sarene - except your own. Often our own opinions of ourselves are the most unrealistic.
Brandon Sanderson
#11. The author says this socially respectable option NOT to parent has actually made parenthood more stressful. The knowledge that parents have chosen that role allows for unrealistic buildup of expectations and unavoidable second-guessing.
Jennifer Senior
#12. It is unrealistic to imagine a US geostrategic vision which sees its pivotal interests linked exclusively to the Pacific region. More appropriately, we need to consider the wider Middle East, Central Asia and North-East Africa to be bound together in a geopolitical unit of pivotal importance.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
#13. It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time.
Andrew Weil
#14. Unrealistic expectations are things the other person isn't able or willing to do for me. I have to let go of these.
Lysa TerKeurst
#15. Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#16. I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.
Suze Orman
#17. There are realistic limitations, but it's the unrealistic ones that are malignant to our potential.
Andi Jones
#18. Damn Disney & all their happily-after-ever, unrealistic bullshit stories
Jillian Dodd
#19. Take the example of people who are being most unrealistic - people who are beating monks to death and torturing them. Why shouldn't you be angry or hate that person? Well, the person who is doing that is very unhappy. They are being ordered by a higher-up.
Robert Thurman
#20. Yes, but I am not human and to expect me to live by your rules or values is unrealistic. For my kind, I am quite altruistic." Tyler Jones/Dhavenbahtek to Thulu and La Fi.
Maer Wilson
#21. Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you.
Martina Navratilova
#22. What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#23. Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.
Anthony Daniels
#24. If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.
Alistair Begg
#25. I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic.
Brendan Gleeson
#26. I'm not supposed to communicate something that's completely unrealistic.
Julianne Moore
#27. I've seen trans people in movies and TV shows, but judging by how unrealistic and shitty bi characters tend to be, I'm gonna assume I know nothing. So what's okay for me to ask?
Meredith Russo
#28. The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic ...
Cressida Cowell
#29. I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
Dan Brown
#30. Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ...
Alan Greenspan
#31. I can destroy a dance floor. I think life should be a musical. I always hate it when people watch a musical and they go, 'Oh, it's so unrealistic, no one just breaks into song in the middle of their day.' Yeah, they do- if they're me.
Zachary Levi
#32. There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
Stephen Covey
#33. Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.
Tim Ferriss
#34. Evaluation eliminates frustration.
We should also evaluate unrealistic expectations.
Unrealistic expectations become unmet expectations. And unmet expectations are like kindling wood-it only takes but a spark of frustration to set them ablaze and burn those involved.
Lysa TerKeurst
#35. But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life. - Lena Gray
Maeve Binchy
#37. We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.
Michael Howard
#38. Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you ... We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of unrealistic comparisons.
Elaine L. Jack
#39. There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.
Frederick Lenz
#40. It is because you are generous in spirit; and may I be like that; may I become like you - which unrealistic wish, to become the other, is such a true and revealing symptom of love, its most obvious clue, its unmistakable calling card.
Alexander McCall Smith
#41. A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's fruitfulness.
Satoshi Kanazawa
#42. Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.
Simon Sinek
#43. The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the world. Ironically, you're the super secret enemy. Whether lay or householder, everyone has that internal enemy.
Robert Thurman
#44. To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.
William Odom
#45. I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them.
George Soros
#46. The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
Steve Berry
#47. Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories are silly and unrealistic, we are telling young girls not to expect to be the heroines in their own real lives.
Maya Rodale
#48. The idea of quick methods to success in this life or the Afterlife is a deception, unrealistic and unislamic.
Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar
#49. The more I try to be perfect; the more I fail.
Harley King
#50. And just like that, I knew what I wanted. Something I had always wanted. But it was so unrealistic it hadn't even made it to my wish list.
David Levithan
#51. I still have this unrealistic faith, that one day, my ship will come in. More people will discover, understand and buy my stuff.
Jill Sobule
#52. What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.
Noam Chomsky
#53. It would be great if we were on multiple planets, but I think that's unrealistic. Hawking says we have to be on multiple planets so an asteroid could come and you'd still have some humans left. It's a nice idea. It satisfies the multiple-eggs-in-multiple-baskets concept.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#54. Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
Jim Harrison
#55. I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.
Ben Affleck
#56. Too much planning implies you've got it all under control. That's boring, unrealistic, and dangerous.
Twyla Tharp
#57. We [need to] stop treating each other like that, stop calling each other fat and stop with these unrealistic expectations for women. It's disappointing that the media keeps it alive and fuels that fire.
Jennifer Lawrence
#58. It is certainly not unrealistic to think we could have elections by mid-year 2004 and when a sovereign government is installed - my job here will be done.
Paul Bremer
#59. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
Albert Ellis
#60. I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.
Robyn Davidson
#61. Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.
Carl Rogers
#62. Artists are strange people. They make the world a beautiful place, and make others feel good, but they are a bunch of lonely people. Artists are people with unfulfilled, unrealistic dreams, lonely, and always searching for perfection.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#63. [ ... ] What's wrong with her?"
"Chronic competence, I should guess. She's been so successful in life that she has unrealistic expectations of others.
Brandon Sanderson
#64. Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#65. The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
Gail Simmons
#66. If you think that you can please everyone that comes in your way, you are being unrealistic. That is why you need to find your 'soul-mates'.
Assegid Habtewold
#67. Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.
Ralph Marston
#68. I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen.
Russell Simmons
#69. I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending.
Marian Keyes
#70. Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
Orhan Pamuk
#71. By contrast, if one conceives the idea of human rights as centring on the notion that each individual is completely autonomous and should have entire control over its own fate, this seems to me unrealistic even for human beings, and far too one-sided to be used as a central tool of morality.
Mary Midgley
#72. I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.
Wentworth Miller
#73. Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.
Karen McDougal
#74. The right to free speech and the unrealistic expectation to never be offended can not coexist.
Philip Sharp
#75. We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic
Susan Jeffers
#76. Granted the dialogue is unrealistic and cringe-worthy and the dude is a crude alpha with a cock the size of a Subway sandwich, but hey, no one wants to read about pencil dicks either. The
Karina Halle
#77. To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don't buy into the notion that because it's fantastic, it should be unrealistic, because I think you have to have a sense of believing the world that you're going into.
Peter Jackson
#78. It is the idylic and unrealistic portrayal of life in some Christian movies that can make them ineffective in reaching unbelievers with a positive message.
Douglas Beaumont
#79. The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.
David Lilienthal
#80. Places of genius challenge us. They are difficult. They do not earn their place in history with ethnic restaurants or street festivals, but by provoking us, making demands of us. Crazy, unrealistic, beautiful demands.
Eric Weiner
#81. The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement.
Douglas Kirkland
#82. [ ... ] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226
Stephanie Dowrick
#83. Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.
Drake
#84. Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
Maelle Gavet
#85. When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.
Pauline Collins
#86. It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always realize under the pressure their parents put on them to be happy.
Adam Phillips
#87. It was unrealistic to expect to be constantly in the happiest place. In real life, you're lucky just to be always somewhere nearby.
Sarah Dessen
#88. The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.
Zoe Cassavetes
#89. The probabilitation of possibilities is the mother of many unrealistic ideas,uninformative decisions,inappropriate measures and unfair actions because most of the times we were approximate where we needth to be exact.
Mpho Leteng
#90. It's unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it's unlikely that he or she will be the same person who's pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does.
Tom Rath
#91. In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.
Crowder
#92. The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.
Helen Suzman
#93. It was totally unrealistic to think that because there had been wildly unlikely coincidences in the immediate past, that there would be more wildly unlikely ones turning up in orderly succession. Yet ...
Murray Leinster
#94. Like every other area of life, we have come to believe that growth in Christ - as individuals or as churches - can and should be programmed to generate predictable outcomes that are unrealistic and are not even justified biblically. We want big results - sooner rather than later.
Michael S. Horton
#95. I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
Vikas Swarup
#96. Physically, my character is stronger than him which is totally unrealistic, ... Because in reality he can ... kill me. I think it has a lot to do with (him being) the youngest of all of his brothers, and I think he got beat up a lot.
Pauly Shore
#97. I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.
Sia Furler
#98. Closure. That's probably the most unrealistic word in the English vocabulary. It's up there with heartbreak, pain, loss, and abandonment, all these things that you're supposed to get over and mend and heal but really, do you ever get over those moments?
Katie Kacvinsky
#99. I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.
Emily Procter
#100. I hate to admit that. I want to win every race, but I know that's not possible. To be in the top 25 is realistic if we have any luck this year. But anything to be in the chase or something like that is very unrealistic.
Roger Staubach