Quotes About Realism

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.

I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.

I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.

I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

I don't want to claim that my government can find solutions to all the problems facing the people.

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.

If people are expecting the mayor of Portland to solve the problem of homelessness they're going to be sorely disappointed and that's just the truth.

I may not be a polished politician, but as a lifelong farmer, I know that most problems can be solved with a little common sense.

I think there are some things that just cannot be fixed.

There's just some things you can't change.

You were always the Harry to my Hermione, flushing away my erratic anxiety with the rudest sense of realism.

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life." - Lena Gray

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do";

In all the time he was sick, Morrie never held out hope he would be cured. He was realistic to a fault. One time, I asked if someone were to wave a magic wand and make him all better, would he become, in time, the man he had been before? He shook his head. "No way I could go back. I am a different self now. I'm different in my attitudes.

It astonished me later to find how the readers found Warrender's war record so convincing and full when I had said so little – one real war veteran of Burma wrote to say how realistic he found it – but since then I've come to learn for myself how little one needs, in the art of writing, to convey the lot, and how a lot of words, on the other hand, can convey so little.

Anyone who falls into the habit of thinking and expecting the best of his subordinates at all times is, for that reason alone, unsuited to command an army

When you're young, you see the world as it should be, and when you're old you start to see it as it really is.

His intelligence was matched with his lack of practicality.

Holly's theory about the army, Sharon explained. And what is it? Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

And while positivity is the seed of many a great thing, wishful thinking alone doesn't make a good foundation for marriage.