Quotes About Realism

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

Don't expect perfection in the person you love. There is no rule that the person must be perfect always. As nobody is perfect.

The doctors at Hayden may have erred about the details of her condition. They need their labels, their certainties. What are depression and psychosis, after all, but lapses from realism? And what's that? But the doctors were right about the general crisis. An insufficient God is better than no God at all.

It looked very unrealistic and inaccurate, which was exactly what I liked.

They ranged from bleakly depressing (due to an excess of realism) to highly unlikely (due to an excess of optimism).

when I do manage to care, I'm a pessimist.

Agnes Tattle was the only person he'd ever met who was strong enough to look life right in the eye and spit. It must be the mathematics in her background. Such courageous realism certainly didn't come from the study of English literature.

Your such a cynic. Exactly, that's what you call a guy who tells you the truth.

War was neither a means in the hands of policy nor was it an end in itself. Instead it was regarded as an evil; albeit one that was sometimes made necessary by the imperfection of the world.

It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't charge sixteen dollars for that little tiny jar.

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men

I can only offer this advice: if you expect sunny paths all the time and no storms you will know disillusionment, but if you are prepared for rough paths and storms you will cope and will know the pleasure of achievement

Comprendió cómo es posible idealizar a las personas por conveniencia propia mientras se pisotean sus debilidades humanas como si fueran tierra.

For the ultrarealist, goals exist not to be achieved but to stimulate striving and to drive progress toward the fulfillment of potential. This is why champions set goals that are hard to achieve, and why they welcome opportunities to raise their game.

Nora wanted to live in a world where no cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had available to her were worlds with humans in them.

Don't be proud of only liking realism. It is like being proud of not having an imagination.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day and underestimate what we can do in a week.

In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would grow irate or bitter at the mention of the suffering of animals. A pig to me will always seem more important than a pork rind. There is the risk here of confusing realism with cynicism, moral stoicism with moral sloth, of letting oneself become jaded and lazy and self-satisfied--what used to be called an 'appetitive' person.

I'm not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don't go building castles in the air. You'll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse.