Quotes About Realism

But as for us, as for our group commonly known in the World as "Hip Hop," this gospel acknowledges and celebrates the Love that has saved OUR people from self-destruction. It is time to repent and grow up! Rapping about crime and murder may sound good amongst those who have never committed such acts, but for those of us who are REAL IN THE FIELD, we send this message to our young people—YOU DON'T REALLY WANT IT!

Her stories do not bring in a realism in which

Her stories do not bring in a realism in which the worst is taken for granted, but a realism in which love, caring and compassion appear, and most certainly hope. 'This type of realism does exist,' Tom Cookson said of her writing. There

Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.

Like many compositions of its kind - all muscles, square jaws and sunshine - it is stronger on the socialism than the reality

I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.

Een groot schrijver is altijd pessimist, want hij weet dat het leven moeilijk begint en slecht eindigt.

The young can be so unreasonable in what they expect from

Soy un utopista, pero no un loco.

Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.

I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans.

there is currently no simulator software for landing on water, and no real life training scenario in how to ditch a plane. To be fair, it would be a difficult situation to reproduce.

Happy the man who early learns the difference between his wishes and his powers.

By thinking globally I can analyze all phenomena, but when it comes to acting, it can only be local and on a grassroots level if it is to be honest, realistic, and authentic.

but she possessed what was better than beauty: an absolutely realistic evaluation of life.

In depicting the Indian background, do not commit these traditional errors: Do not show them on war parties in full regalia. I judge from what I have read that Indians in their everyday occupations looked pretty much like students at the Boulder campus of Colorado University today, except that the Indians may have been somewhat cleaner.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. —WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

I... had no need for cheering dreams," he wrote. "Facts are better than dreams.

No more calamities... I don't want you to stop trying to save the world, Cotton. But I don't want you to expect to save it, either.

I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.

The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.

My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie.

You always underestimate - rather than be disappointed.

In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.