Quotes and Sayings About Realist
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I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
-- Aretha Franklin -
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
-- Arthur Symons -
An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.
-- Cameron Sinclair -
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
-- Chuck Close -
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
-- Daniel Woodrell -
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
-- David Eddings -
There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
-- Dean Koontz -
Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.
-- Esther Perel -
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes -
The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.
-- George Carlin -
I'm a realist and I always have been.
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
-- James Earl Jones -
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.
-- Jessica Chastain -
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
-- Joan Baez -
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.
-- Lee Kuan Yew -
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.
-- Marty Liquori -
A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?
-- Michael Shaara -
In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.
-- Nancy Spain -
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
-- Octavia Spencer -
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
-- Peter Drucker -
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.
-- Phyllis Bottome -
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
-- Quentin Crisp
