Quotes About Realism

Can't save everyone

I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.

A little advice about feelings kiddo; don't expect it always to tickle." Dr, Berger

Nothing is as inimical to passion as the slow, sensible weighing of practicalities.

Jenseits von jugendlichen Leidenschaften begegnete man der Welt am besten mit gut gekühltem Pragmatismus.

A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.

People are so influenced by the media that they really believe a 38-24-45 plastic-surgery body is normal, and they can't understand why a body would possibly have cellulite or bumps.

I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.

This idea of the world expecting you to remain an ingenue forever - it's a very short shelf life if you're going to commit to that as your career, and I knew that early.

I'm not saying I'm never going to get injured again; that's just impossible.

Having full faith that you can write something completely insane, and your actress will ground it and make it feel real, is a very liberating feeling.

With comedy, don't try to be funny. That's really helped me. Just say the lines as you would say them, interact with other characters, and try to make it as real as possible. It will come out funny.

Accept your genetic blueprint. Just as a person with a shoe size of eight would not expect realistically to squeeze into a size six, it is equally futile (and uncomfortable) to have a similar expectation about body size. Respect your body, so you can feel better about who you are. It's hard to reject the diet mentality if you are unrealistic and overly critical of your body shape.

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

In many cases the problem does not lie with someone paying too much attention to the dark side of things, it is actually due to our overemphasis on bright and positive things — sometimes that brightness can be so blinding that it damages our ability to see things clearly.

foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

The simple truth is that nowhere in human history is there another man who combined so uniquely and effectively in his person both the idealist and realist factors as did Mu?ammad (Peace be upon him)

Le atrajeron con engaños, que el creyó, por su desdicha, y se acercó, satisfecho, con sus buques, a la orilla. ¡Malhaya el corazón noble que de los malos se fía!, que al poner el pie en la arena, le prendieron los realistas.

Only the early Fitzgerald was great. Then came an orgy of brutal realism

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

It is children who are the true realists: they never proceed from generalities. The adult recognizes the general form in a particular example, a representative of the species, dismisses everything else and states: that's lilac, there's an ash tree, an apple tree. The child perceives individuals, personalities. He sees the unique form, and doesn't mask it with a common name or function.

Realism provides only amoral observation, while Absurdism rejects even the possibility of debate.

Lo negativo está guiado por nuestros miedos y suele ser poco realista.

They say, 'Oh, I went up to Scotland once and it was raining.' Of course it was fucking raining! Where do you think Scotland is – the fucking Pyrenees? Take a raincoat, you stupid fucker!