Quotes About Realism

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.

You're an excellent judge of character, Sarene—except your own. Often our own opinions of ourselves are the most unrealistic.

Clubs spoke so bluntly . . . so callously. But that was Clubs. He wasn't even really a pessimist; he just said the things that he didn't think others wanted to acknowledge.

We want to believe that there were better men once. That makes us think it could be that way again. But people don't change. They are corrupt now.They were corrupt then.

how often has "hope" been the reason someone refuses to move on and accept a realistic attitude? How often has "hope" caused more pain or delayed healing? How often has "hope" prevented someone from standing up and doing what needs to be done, because they cling to a wish for everything to be different?

Who had time for morals in a world like this?

Fighting was not about glory, but about men lying on the ground screaming and thrashing, tangled in their own viscera

It has to do with our makeup. Most men, but not all, are realists. Whereas most women are idealists. Most men are practical, sensible

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

Things are as they are.

The tendency exists to look for a solution to [loneliness] by establishing very demanding and often exhausting friendships. […] the stresses on many students are so intense that they often have inexhaustible needs for intimacy, and clinging friendships. But this is often encouraging the unrealistic fantasy that the true, real, faithful friend is somewhere waiting, able to take away all the feelings of frustration.

We often say, "I am not very happy. I am not content with the way my life is going. I am not really joyful or peaceful, but I just don't know how things can be different, and I guess I have to be realistic and accept my life as it is." It is this mood of resignation that prevents us from actively searching for the life of the Spirit.

The world as it stands is no illusion.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

What was sad in the world he did not superficially gainsay; what was glad in it he did not cynically slur; and all which was to him personally enjoyable, he gratefully took to his heart.

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.

My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

Showing young girls' realistically captured bodies in ads lets young girls realise that it's okay to have dimples, stretches, rolls, etc. since we're only human.

I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.