Quotes About Realism

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

If you know you will not be perfect, then those mistakes can roll off your shoulders as you move on to the next play. But if perfection is your ideal, those mistakes will cripple you with frustration. So be realistic, understand that you and others will make mistakes, and use those as building blocks for the future.

The incorrigible political error of the man of good will is to presuppose naively that at every moment it is possible to do what must be done. Here, where what is necessary is often impossible.

Epistemología que acople un idealismo ontológico a un realismo axiológico. El mundo es mi representación, menos los esplendores que lo rasgan.

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

I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.

Realism about human beings nonetheless compels us to recognize that logical rigor and philosophical soundness carry little weight in civic discourse. They simply cannot stir up sufficient fervor, at least not among a large enough population, to drive mass movements. These movements, even the most virtuous, apparently need a dose of irrationalism to keep going.

When a friend told Francis Bacon that he would prefer not to have an eternal soul than to live in eternal torment, the painter replied with a grim realism that people are "so attracted to their egos that they'd probably rather have the torment than simple annihilation.

At this moment, as I stood on the verge of tears, the words "realism" and "romanticism" welled up within me. I have no sense of realism. And that this very fact might be what permits me to go on living sends cold chills through my whole body.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.

Politics is the art of the possible.

Politics is the art of the possible. (originally, "Die Politik ist die Lehre von Möglichen.")

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

The trouble with you is,' she said, half-smiling, 'that you're such an optimist. You really believe that if things are hopelessly bad, then they must improve. What nonsense it is! Things can be bad, and stay bad. And they can be endured... Can't you see that we've all got to make the best of things as they are?

One of the things I always tell the police and families is that while everything is possible, not all things are probable. You can't waste a lot of investigative effort on an extremely unlikely scenario; you have to stay with what makes sense.

The best engineer in the world can't build a 10-story sandcastle.

I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.

Martin Luther confidently claimed that the Holy Spirit writes the moral truths on our conscience. Free of all misgivings, Luther claimed that the assertions of the Holy Spirit "are more sure and certain than life itself and all experience." 9 Realism intervenes: different devout hearts often deliver opposite moral assertions.

I think things are usually bad one way or another," he said. "It might be that only us older folk can see it.

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

What Salinger found when he examined their world in a fiercely realistic way was an assemblage of unhappy people living unfulfilled lives.

Pangloss is an idiot optimist, and I'm an intelligent pessimist, meaning a pessimist who has occasional flashes of optimism. Nearly everything happens for the worst, but not always, you see, nothing is ever always, but I'm always expecting the worst, and when the worst doesn't happen, I get so excited I begin to sound like an optimist.

Getting a little sober is as unrealistic as being a little bit pregnant

So, when you are sinned against or when the fallen world breaks your door down, don't lash out or run away. Stand in your weakness and confusion and say, "I am not alone. God is with me, and he is faithful, powerful, and willing." You can be realistic and hopeful at the very same time. Realistic expectations are not about hope without honesty, and they are not about honesty without hope. Realism is found at the intersection of unabashed honesty and uncompromising hope.