Top 263 Realist Quotes & Sayings

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.

I am a realist. I expect miracles.

I'm a dreamer and a realist.

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

I may be an aspiring actor, but I am also a realist.

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

I'm a realist.

I'm a realist about how the networks work.

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret.

I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.

I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society.

I consider myself a realist.

The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.

With a lot of these social realist films, the first thing you do is drain the color.

To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist mindstate yet still working towards the fantasy and still being childish. While still having the understanding and capacity that would generally inspire pessimism: some sort of more realist perspective that I think most people classify as adult. Anything like that and anything that's sort of fun.

The thrill of a photo-realist painter is if you get really close to the painting, it looks just like a photograph. Whereas in my case, if you get close to my paintings, they totally fall apart - so I'm about as far from a photo-realist as it gets.

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

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?

I'm a realist, I understand football and situations in the game.

One cannot afford to be a realist.

I'm very much a realist.

I'm always a realist, and I know the world of football is fast-moving.

I think Bernie Sanders is a realist.

I try to be a realist and not a pessimist or an optimist.

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

Cynical is a fool's word for realist.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

I like to think I'm some savage realist.

It always felt like I had to be a realist.

I have realised that my time has come and gone. I'm not bitter, just a realist.

In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible, realist story that had these somewhat articulate characters, a lot of silence, a lot of obscured suffering, a lot of manliness, a lot of drinking, a lot of divorces. As my writing went on, I shed a lot of those elements.

I am indeed a moral realist.

I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

The visionary is the only realist.

I'm a realist, and so we have to take what exists and continue to struggle to move forward.

I'm a very positive person, but I'm a realist too.

I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.

I am a social realist writer.

I'm an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.

When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist in the sense we have usually used the term in literature. If reality today is different from the reality of 30 years ago, we can't keep describing reality in the same way as we did 30 years ago.

I'm a realist and I always have been.

I'm a realist and I'm not going to shy away from being knocked out.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.