Quotes About Realist

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

I'm a realist. Just because you had sex once doesn't mean you have to fall in love.

I like to think my upbringing has made me pragmatic and thick-skinned, a coper and a realist

I'm a realist, " I said. "Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.

Ich erinnere mich noch an Ihre Worte: "Die Welt ist ein Schlachthaus und ein Bordell." Damals schien mir das übertrieben, aber es ist bittere Wahrheit. Man hält Sie für einen Mystiker, aber in Wirklichkeit sind Sie durch und durch Realist. Wie dem auch sei, alles wird uns aufgezwungen, selbst die Hoffnung.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

He was realist enough to know he might never find the life partner he longed for, and dreamer enough not to quit looking

How do you know I'm a romanticist?" Like most romanticists Anwar too prided himself on being a realist.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

La opinión política del señor Mabeuf consistía en amar apasionadamente las plantas, y sobre todo los libros. Tenía, como todo el mundo, su terminación en ista sin la cual nadie hubiera podido vivir en aque tiempo, pero no era ni realista, ni bonapartista, ni carlista, ni orleanista, ni anarquista: era librista.

Although he trusted the good sense of the people in the long run, he believed that they could easily be misled by demagogues. He was a realist who had no illusions about human nature. "The motives which predominate most human affairs," he said, "are self-love and self-interest." The common people, like the common soldiers in his army, could not be expected to be "influenced by any other principles than those of interest.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

The idea has come to me that what I want now to do is to saturate every atom. I mean to eliminate all waste, deadness, superfluity: to give the moment whole; whatever it includes. Say that the moment is a combination of thought; sensation; the voice of the sea. Waste, deadness, come from the inclusion of things that don't belong to the moment; this appalling narrative business of the realist: getting on from lunch to dinner: it is false, unreal, merely conventional.

I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.

The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.

A realist is a man who knows both the world and his own dreams.

I'm a realist - yes, I know: darn, I'm unlikely to have a love scene with Chris Hemsworth anytime soon, if ever. But I also believe that persistence and hard work pays off.

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.

There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The Intelligent Investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

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.