Quotes About Realism

Life isn't always ideal, not for most people.

Idealists should always strive to underestimate others, as that will bring them closer to reality.

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

S'il n'y avait que des salauds dans le monde, le Réalisme serait aussi le Bon Sens, car le Réalisme est précisément le bon sens des salauds.

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.

I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just don't have happy endings.

You can't get blood out of a turnip.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life, and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Can't change what was, she said with a shrug. So you deal with what is

I suppose this is for the best, Blay said into his shoulder. You can't cook. See? I'm so not Prince Charming.

Real life went down when and where it did, regardless of whether things were photogenic.

Fantasies were not what she needed right now. What she needed was… A real bathroom with running water.

traders shouldn't stick their heads in the sand and just hope it gets better.

One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.