Top 306 Unrealistic Quotes & Sayings

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

We are trying to make football so pure and sterile it becomes unrealistic.

There's no point considering something which is very unrealistic.

So much is predicated on wins and losses to enjoy life. Every single person loses every week, so it is unrealistic to say you shouldn't enjoy the process. They are unrealistic expectations.

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'

There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic.

Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you.

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

Cinema is a platform open to all kind of views and it is very unrealistic to think that everyone can be happy.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.

The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.

It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.

Some of the folks we see are in for defending themselves against their abusers, or drug charges that, because of the California state prison system, they have mandatory sentencing and life in prison for three counts of simple drug possession, or whatever. I find it not only helpful but, I think, necessary in maintaining my grounding and my perspective. Because music is such an unrealistic job to have. It's a really lucky job to have, but it's also very unrealistic.

There's a beauty in being unrealistic.

A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's fruitfulness.

Nobody lives happily ever after, because that is extremely unrealistic.

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.

I'm not supposed to communicate something that's completely unrealistic.

I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.

You have to believe in the unrealistic to do something extraordinary - to create a miracle.

For a married couple to expect perfection for each other is unrealistic.

Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not

If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard.

Anyone who magnifies the power of a television talk show is very unrealistic.

I have been very hard on myself and strived for unrealistic goals of perfection.

The dangerous thing about platform introductions is that they tend to create unrealistic expectations.

A lot of times, gay characters are represented in unrealistic or stereotypical ways.

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.

Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life.

It's the most unrealistic thing you can do to shoot a close-up, and it's the most unrealistic place you can be as a performer. And yet actors grouse about having to do visual effect shots, but they love doing close-ups.

As you get older, you tend to be a little less patient with people - people who are not prepared, people who have unrealistic expectations, people who make unrealistic demands, people who think they're more special than other people.

I feel totally disconnected from reality in Washington. Maybe I'm just really pretentious - in fact, I probably am - but I feel like people in this city have no idea about where their reality is coming from and who is helping them to live in this illusion. I've gone from the south side of Chicago, where everyone is completely unrealistic about what's important in life to a place like this, where people are still unrealistic about what's important, but it's on two opposite sides of the spectrum. I just get tired of it all. It makes me really, really angry.

I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.

I am not arguing for a utopian society; equal opportunity for all, though ideal, is unrealistic.

I've always said that people have unrealistic expectations.

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation.

There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time.

People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.

So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.

I have allergic reactions: it triggers my gag reflex when I read unrealistic dialogue from a teenager.