Quotes About Realism

The fact is, and there's no denying it, realism... is supposed to make one uneasy.

Whereas devotees of globalization stress what unifies humankind, traditional realists stress what divides us.

Because moralists in these matters are always driven by righteous passion, whenever you disagree with them, you are by definition immoral and deserve no quarter; whereas realists, precisely because they are used to conflict, are less likely to overreact to it.

Realism is alien to the American tradition

My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.

Confidence is important, but if it is not based on a realistic appraisal of who you are, it is mere grandiosity and smugness.

When you have success, be extra wary. When you are angry, take no action. When you are fearful, know you are going to exaggerate the dangers you face. War demands the utmost in realism, seeing things as they are. The more you can limit or compensate for your emotional responses, the closer you will come to this ideal.

This ain't going to be no goddamn Sunday school picnic.

If life gives you lemons lets be honest you probably just found lemons

Back to my hero/damsel in distress syndrome. I'd read too many fairy tales as a child, and I was too much of a realist not to enjoy being rescued once in a while.

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don't realize is perfection is terrifying.

Never place someone so high on a pedestal that if they should fall... you get crushed.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.

I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.

He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies...He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.

You're the only one more impractical than he was, she said; you should know this is not a country for dreamers.

Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.

One potential remedy for human stupidity is a dose of humility. National, religious and cultural tensions are made worse by the grandiose feeling that my nation, my religion and my culture are the most important in the world – hence my interests should come before the interests of anyone else, or of humankind as a whole. How can we make nations, religions and cultures a bit more realistic and modest about their true place in the world?

If modernity has a motto, it is 'shit happens'.

I was also searching for a house in which I could live and work and make a world at my own pace, but even in my imagination this home was blurred, undefined, not real, or not realistic, or lacked realism.