Quotes About Realism

There's no sense in bemoaning what we can't achieve today. Let's get on with what we can achieve.

Sometimes," Halt continued, "we tend to expect a little too much of Ranger horses. After all, they are only human.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

a bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground...

I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Great powers of all persuasions care deeply about their survival, and there is always the danger in a bipolar or multipolar system that they will be attacked by another great power. In these circumstances, liberal great powers regularly dress up their hard-nosed behavior with liberal rhetoric. They talk like liberals and act like realists. Should they adopt liberal policies that are at odds with realist logic, they invariably come to regret it.

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

solid midwestern pragmatism. Circle of life and all that.

You can't protect everyone; you can't stop all the wrong; you can't control someone else.

The more I see of the world, the less inclined I am to think well of it.

There was a time when I thought I could change everything. I have learned the hard way that we only have so much strength: better to use it for fights where we stand a chance of winning." "And

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

He who would love his fellow man Must not expect too much of him.

The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life's challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you.

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

You have to deal with the world as it is and not as you want it to be

We must face the fact that international relations are governed by interests and not by moral principles.

Me as a person, man, I'm just rapping reality. Every time I get in front of the microphone I'm just speaking about real life and what's happening.

I'm rarely optimistic.

Larger-than-life roles have never excited me. I'd rather play someone real who goes through obstacles and becomes a hero.