Quotes About Realism

We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

the American people must mature. We are an adolescent lot, expecting solutions to insoluble problems and perfection in our leaders.

Machiavelli wrote, "The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms. You cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow." This is a better definition of realism than the realists have given us.

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey—and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

Art transcends selfish and obsessive limitations of personality and can enlarge the sensibility of its consumer. It is a kind of goodness by proxy. Most of all it exhibits to us the connection, in human beings, of clear realistic vision with compassion. The realism of a great artist is not a photographic realism, it is essentially both pity and justice.

I have seen much of human beings over a long period, and I have learnt how little good to expect from them.

Anyway people never fall in love suddenly like that except in novels.

writing about drugs is like that though, isn't it? You can just tell when someone is writing about drugs and they've never really done them. It screams out at you. That's something where I believe you have to have been there to really get it, y'know?

I wanted the figures to be real and believable so that you would feel that with their very next breath would begin life itself.

He lives in the past. He is a dreamer of ancient times, or rather, of the myths of what ancient times used to be. Such men are harmless in themselves, but their queer lack of realism makes them fools for others.

Unsafe, sire. He lives in the past. He is a dreamer of ancient times, or rather, of the myths of what ancient times used to be. Such men are harmless in themselves, but their queer lack of realism makes them fools for others.

Compared to Europe, Chile was a happily backward and distant paradise. It was true that at this moment it had a center-left government: the president was from the Radical Party and a freemason. He was detested by the Right, and his name was never mentioned by the "best families," but he wasn't going to last long. The Left, with its coarse realism and vulgarity, had no future; the owners of Chile would make sure of that

It is true - maybe with five or seven points more, I could be five times world champion. But on the other hand, I could have zero world championships, and zero wins or zero podiums, because F1 is an extremely competitive environment. So I just take the positives, and I am happy with my achievements.

Can I take on the Republican Party machine? Get real. No. Zero percent.

As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Courage is the ability to solve problems realistically in the presence of fear.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is, instead of as it should be.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

Women should be portrayed as they are, authentically and truthfully.

I try to be a realist and not a pessimist or an optimist.