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I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.
— Soe Hok Gie
I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist ... or maybe even a pessimist.
— Clay Aiken
I would love to be on a Real Housewives from somewhere reality show. Then I could show all those women how the rest of our society gets to do it.
— Heather Chapple
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.
— Gore Vidal
I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.
— Anthony Jeselnik
I wasn't a cynic; I was a banged-up realist.
— Wally Lamb
Just that I'm not a realist,' he said, and then: 'No, only the romanticist preserves the things worth preserving.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
— Sydney J. Harris
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
He was a romantic in his own harsh way ... yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.
— Stephen King
When a man comes to your house with a bag full of money, he certainly has seen more in your backyard than in the bag.
— M.F. Moonzajer
The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.
— Richard Bausch
Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.
— Igor Babailov
You're a cynic," Urgit accused.Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist. — David Eddings
... a cynic is only a term used by an idealist to describe a realist.
— Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay
You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.
— Ransom Riggs
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
— Eric Hoffer
You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you.
— August Strindberg
I'm a realist," I said. "Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.
— Nicole Williams
Empty threats are for dreamers. And I fancy myself a realist.
— Natalya Vorobyova
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
— James Earl Jones
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
— Daniel Woodrell
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
— Arthur Symons
I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.
— Adam Carolla
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.
— Karen Russell
Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.").
— Terry Pratchett
I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.
— Elisabeth Rohm
I'm not a cynic. I am a realist.
— Sonya Watson
I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.
— Morgan Spurlock
A moral vision must be balanced by the realist dimension of prudence to have a reasonable prospect of success.
— Joseph S. Nye Jr.
It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.
— Marie-Louise Von Franz
I have remarked elsewhere that I regard the Almighty as not a bad novelist, except that He is a realist.
— John Barth
I may sound very cynical, but a cynic is really a realist.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
A realist is a slave to reality.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I'm a realist and I always have been.
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Poetry is always dependent on realism, that you have to be a realist or you can't be a poet. Mrs.
— Flannery O'Connor
I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't.
— Amy Winehouse
There is no master narrative nor realist perspective to provide a background of social and historical facts.
— Kathy Acker
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.
— Frances Parkinson Keyes
I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.
— Telly Savalas
To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!
— Criss Jami
One cannot afford to be a realist.
— Albert Bandura
America: A place where Realists have the freedom to be Idealists.
— Dortha Jackson
I'm a realist." "You're a misanthrope.
— Jason Mott
I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much.
— Tiffany Reisz
The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won't stop a missile, though. It won't alter the trajectory of a gauss round.
— James S.A. Corey
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
— David Ben-Gurion
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
— Benjamin Graham
Evelyn: ...Don't take my negativity for lack of self-confidence. I'm just a realist.Maddie: Realistically dumb. — Rachel Hera
I am a realist. I expect miracles.
— Wayne Dyer
It always felt like I had to be a realist.
— Jack Tatum
Cynical is a fool's word for realist.
— Paul Christopher
Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality.
— Andre Bazin
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'
— Jessica Chastain
You're not a realist unless you believe in miracles.
— Anwar Sadat
I'm a realist. Just because you had sex once doesn't mean you have to fall in love.
— Candace Bushnell
I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
— Roger Moore
In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.
— Michel Houellebecq
Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.
— Shannon L. Alder
I am a scientist, and therefore an absolute realist.
— Rick Yancey
I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.
— Andre Kertesz
There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
— Dean Koontz
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
— David Ben-Gurion
I'm a realist, but sometimes I find myself floating in fantasy.
— Brittany Perloff
Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.
— C. JoyBell C.
If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
— Robert Charles Wilson
As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.
— Bill Maher
Kafka was a realist
— Gyorgy Lukacs
I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has never learned from History.
— Philippe De Montebello
The realist always falls in love with a girl he has grown up with, the romanticist with a girl from 'off somewhere.
— Robert Frost
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.
— William C. Wright
Realist saboteurs do not, as a rule, enjoy long careers. Everyone gets caught eventually.
— Peter Watts
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
— Margaret Atwood
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.
— Phyllis Bottome
Life is an experiment; so keep a realist and believe in miracles.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.
— Mason Cooley
A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.
— Christina Stead