Quotes About Realism

Prince Charming can go suck rocks. I've met my true love and he's a contractor

There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.

Il realismo, per come lo propongo, è una dottrina critica in due sensi. Nel senso kantiano del giudicare che cosa è reale e che cosa non lo è, e in quello marxiano del trasformare ciò che non è giusto.

You begin a marriage with such high ideals, thinking everything should be perfect. When it's not, you throw your toys out of the crib. But then you're living in an empty apartment with kids who don't call. It was better with the toys

Not for an instant did he flinch from the mere fact of dying to-day…To die 'untimely,' as men called it, was the timeliest of deaths for one who had carved his youth to greatness. What perfection could he, Dorset, achieve beyond what was already his? Future years could but stale, if not actually mar, that perfection. Yes, it was lucky to perish leaving much to the imagination of posterity. Dear posterity was of a sentimental, not a realistic, habit.

Dear posterity was of a sentimental, not a realistic, habit.

At the behest of the filmmakers and/or their estates, the titles of those movies based on true-life stories have been omitted.

The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality

The first casualty of the conflict must be our own sentimentality" was the closing statement for his proposal, "for its survival will mean our destruction.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

She used to say that her secret to life was that she "hoped for the best, was prepared for the worst, so anything in between didn't come as a surprise.

She used to say that her secret to life was that she "hoped for the best, was prepared for the worst, so anything in between didn't come as a surprise.

Looking at someone else's relationship for the answers was like reading about a romance novel hero and expecting to find a carbon copy in real life

Life is not a romance novel

It might have been preferable, Eddis admitted, dryly, if you had thrown off your chains of bondage solely for love of me. It would certainly have been more flattering. Standing so near to him, she was looking up into his face and watching it closely. I am willing to accept, however, that we are real people, not characters in a play. We do not, all of us, need to be throwing inkwells. If we are compatible with one another, is that not sufficient?

You've got to stop thinking everyone's problems can be solved by falling in love.

Clear thinking means we don't allow ourselves to become immersed in negativity or unrealistic expectations. We stay connected to other recovering people. We go to our meetings, where peace of mind and realistic support are available. We work the Steps, pray, and meditate.

People did stupid, sometimes unkind things. People did things that were a little bad, things that they were ashamed of. People cheated a little on their taxes, got a little greedy, sometimes they pilfered something that wasn't properly theirs, they quarreled, they abused each other (but never to the point that it would call for a Herald's intervention) and were basically just . . . people. A little good, a little bad, mostly just getting by. Not

there is no stigma attached to acknowledging a lack of love in one's primary relationships. And if one's goal is self-recovery, to be well in one's soul, honestly and realistically confronting lovelessness is part of the healing process.

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice. Once we begin to replace negative thinking with positive thinking, it becomes utterly clear that, far from being realistic, negative thinking is absolutely disenabling.

El inversor inteligente es un realista que vende a optimistas y compra a pesimistas.

marriage is likely to be what is called happy if niether party ever expected to get much happiness out of it

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. Thus science seems to be at war with itself: when it most means to be objective, it finds itself plunged into subjectivity against its will. Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows that naive realism is false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.