Quotes About Realism

Jungle's sound-world constitutes a sort of abstract social realism; when I listen to techstep, the beats sound like collapsing (new) buildings and the bass feels like the social fabric shredding. Jungle's treacherous rhythms offer its audience an education in anxiety (and anxiety, according to Freud, is essential defence mechanism, without which you'd be vulnerable trauma).

his writings to elicit a sense of realism while inspiring a call for social change.

his writings to elicit a sense of realism while inspiring a call for social change. Class, gender, and sexual preference were themes that he cared about, and he showed his readers that none of these factors actually mattered.

I don't altogether admire everything Germany and Italy have done, but you've got to hand it to 'em, they've been honest enough and realistic enough to say to the other nations, 'Just tend to your own

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn't a good side. There isn't an excuse. (Mom - to Lara Lington)

I want to explore marriage without the usual Hallmark Card platitudes. Life is difficult, and I like movies that acknowledge that.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

The short span of life forbids us to take on far-reaching hopes.

Real life doesn't have to suck.

Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

Real life was curious enough without the embellishments of fiction.

Most people are scumbags. Accept it. Let go. Chill out, douchebags.

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra ' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

Girls fitted easily into their own and your own picture of someone dying of unrequited love. If they slipped out of it before you were ready, that was all right too; their slipping out frequently was the necessary reminder that an affair had run its course. It also was the necessary reminder that the realist in a woman, the good appraiser, makes her want to take a loss and get out before she is—for the purposes of the analogy—ruined.

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

To clench one's teeth, to be realistic, but not to compromise, to press on, in spite of the absolute weariness of the million inevitable failures of any great task—that is discipline.

Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming.

John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

Rudge was not a pessimist, but he'd lived long enough to know that hope had to be kept on a short leash.

What could be more absurd than to assemble a crowd to witness a man and woman promising to love each other for the rest of their lives, when we know what human creatures are, — men so thoroughly selfish and unprincipled, women so vain and frivolous?

Preparavo l'apertura, facevo le pulizie, sopportavo la fatica fisica e combattevo la stanchezza. Minimizzavo i pensieri legati al futuro. Mi sforzavo di risolvere le piccole seccature, pensavo alle cose positive, cercavo di non aspettarmi improbabili periodi di grande lavoro, risolvevo i problemi in modo realistico...

Ahora estas en el peor momento. Puede que sea más duro que la muerte. Pero puede que no haya otro peor. Porque los limites de una persona no camban. Quizá te vuelvas a enfermar y puede que te azote de nuevo un resfriado como este, pero si eres fuerte no volverás a sufrir en toda tu vida. Las cosas son así. Puedes pensar que seria un asco que volvería a ocurrir, pero ¿no crees que sería mejor hacerte a la idea de que las cosas son así?