Realistic Quotes

“I just take a book everywhere with me. It's a habit.”
― Rory Gilmore

“Lies are as dangerous as a sword. They can cut to the bone.”
― Dhonielle Clayton, The Belles

“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his death-world with its hidden gift of life. But that life was a deeply ambiguous life, a conjurer's trick, a crafty illusion based on an accidental property of the retina, which retained an image for a fraction of a second after the image was no longer present. On this frail fact was erected the entire structure of the cinema, that colossal confidence game. The animated cartoon was a far more honest expression of the cinematic illusion than the so-called realistic film, because the cartoon reveled in its own illusory nature, exulted in the impossible--indeed it claimed the impossible as its own, exalted it as its own highest end, found in impossibility, in the negation of the actual, its profoundest reason for being. The animated cartoon was nothing but the poetry of the impossible--therein lay its exhilaration and its secret melancholy. For this willful violation of the actual, while it was an intoxicating release from the constriction of things, was at the same time nothing but a delusion, an attempt to outwit mortality. As such it was doomed to failure. And yet it was desperately important to smash through the constriction of the actual, to unhinge the universe and let the impossible stream in, because otherwise--well, otherwise the world was nothing but an editorial cartoon.”
― Steven Millhauser, Little Kingdoms

“Only tillers of soil live by right. The rest form their train and eat only the bread of dependence”
― Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural in English: Thirukural English Translation of Kaviyogi Maharishi

“I do not want to study alchemy, Lord Carlston," she hissed. "It is heretical nonsense. Nor do I want to fight. All you have shown me is a world of danger and threat, and yet you expect to step into it without even asking me if I wish to do so.".........."I am no warrior, sir, nor do I aspire to be. I have been taught to sew and sing and dance, and my duty is to marry, not fight demons. Look at me: I am an Earl's daughter, not a man versed in swords and fisticuffs.”
― Alison Goodman, The Dark Days Club

“. We are guided by outcomes, not ideology. We have a policy of principled realism, rooted in shared goals, interests, and values. That realism forces us to confront a question facing every leader and nation in this room. It is a question we cannot escape or avoid. We will slide down the path of complacency, numb to the challenges, threats, and even wars that we face. Or do we have enough strength and pride to confront those dangers today, so that our citizens can enjoy peace and prosperity tomorrow?”
― Donald Trump

“We must choose our personal viewpoint. We can embrace a sense of weighty heaviness that comes from knowing that our fate is one of deterioration and death, and our suffering is interminable. Alternatively, we can choose to believe in the unbearable lightness of our being and embrace a world of high-minded thoughts and ideals. The decisions we make are significant regardless if we only have one life to live. We weave our life story out of the choices that we make when confronted with the inevitable opportunities to experience love and friendship and heartache and suffering. During our life, we encounter goodness and evilness, and hope and despair. We must decide whether we accept reality. Alternatively, do we seek to escape the pain that comes from acknowledging the paucity of human existence?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We sometimes hide our inability, impatience, or laziness behind the pretext of being realistic.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I've been lying in bed as good as dead for days, and now I'm completely done in.”
― Andreas Steinhöfel

“You may not be perfect when measuring yourself by unattainable standards. But you are always perfectly lovable. Let go of this ideal of perfect. Accept yourself as you are. Allow yourself to love yourself as you are.-”
― Akiroq Brost

“Bazen bir adamın elindeki İncil, babanın elindeki viski şişesinden daha tehlikeli olabilir.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Ah, Bluebell, what am I going to do with you?”
Love me.”
― Sheri Humphreys, A Hero to Hold

“Healthy people learn how to frequently adjust their thoughts to make reality comfortable and realistic.”
― Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People

“El trabajo me parece una estupidez odiosa a la que es difícil escapar”
― Juan Carlos Onetti, El pozo

“I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I can't attack him, because I'm busy defending myself.”
― Andreas Steinhöfel, Die Mitte der Welt

“Maybe, you will kiss the modern bride
Let's agree to disagree, babe
on everything, in advance
Just duct tape my heart to yours babe”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Spit Me Out

“Mad men work for their own destruction”
― Seneca

“A person who accepts that they are condemned to death and who holds no belief in a god created afterlife is a realist.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“MARY: Catherine! Is it necessary to include such a detail?

CATHERINE: Do you expect our readers to believe that we had no bodily needs or functions for entire days at a time?

MARY: No, but such things are simply—unstated. They go without saying.

CATHERINE: It’s very fashionable now to include realistic details, no matter how unpleasant or improper. Look at the French writers. Look at Émile Zola.

MARY: We are not French.”
― Theodora Goss, European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman

“Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's not realistic, and it's also not wise.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

“-Cada uno se miente como puede -dije-. Yo soy una experta en eso.”
― Maia Losch, Allí donde el viento espera

“Because we are so focused on the real world, we keep forgetting how fantasy-driven the Left really is....As with orthodox Marxists, the left adamantly believes it is "Progressive", implying that its adherents know the inevitable and virtuous outcome of history. In the Soviet Union the Party truly believed every five years that Stalin's commands to fix agriculture were bound to work....Lenin and Stalin killed tens of millions of "rich peasants" without ever learning how to feed their country.”
― James Lewis

“Set realistic terms for its implementation”
― Sunday Adelaja

“A significant portion of what we call reality was shaped by human effort.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The realistic-minded people realise their flaws. They do not make stirred issue others at any level.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“If I tell the truth, you should also be realistic, as the elephant has, two types of the teeth, for showing, and to eat; similarly, the most writers and poets, what they write, but they do not think the same.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Rose is not rose because everyone likes it, Everyone likes it because it is rose. So be yourself.”
― Sharad Bangar

“Never perform another fault or mistake, to hide your first ones. Just admit it, and express your regret, for that. It is a way of the realistic, and the great people.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Forgive a traumatic situaiton caused by a person but never forget it for it is a sign of not having understood your lesson.”
― Claude Esperanza Travers