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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

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

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter. — Jo Walton

You're not a realist," she says. "You're a dreamer who doesn't believe in the dream. — Leah Stewart

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

Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love. — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

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

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

I like to think I'm some savage realist. — Nick Frost

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

Magical Realist writer write the ordinary as miraculous and the miraculous as ordinary. — Bruce Holland Rogers

For my part ... I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out. — Pierre Trudeau

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

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

For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fed lying somewhere out of sight. — Zack W. Van

I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area of interest for me. — Kevin Barry

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language. — Igor Babailov

Unless life also gives you water and sugar, your lemonade will suck. - A realist. — R.K. Lilley

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

The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist. — Marty Liquori

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 an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional. — Wolfgang Petersen

I'm a realist," I said. "Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time. — Nicole Williams

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real
but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible. — Hakim Bey

Any discussion between idealist and realist would never end. — Toba Beta

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

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

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

I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Kafka was a realist — Gyorgy Lukacs

I'm a realist, but sometimes I find myself floating in fantasy. — Brittany Perloff

I understand loud and clearly, with my sound mind — Andrea L'Artiste

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

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

To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make! — Criss Jami

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

I think now we are simply strangers with some memories. — Tan Redding

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

Someone told me I'm a cynical fatalist but I prefer the term realist. — Wade Kelly

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

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

Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist. — Terry Pratchett

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

I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has never learned from History. — Philippe De Montebello

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.

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

It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light. — Hedley Bull

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill. — Julien Benda

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. — William Arthur Ward

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

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

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low. — Tom Hiddleston

When you leave, I feel like I'm alone with your demons. — Crystal Woods

I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore. — Moby

The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict. — Frank Bruno

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

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

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

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

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

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist
while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist! — Lori Greiner

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

The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality. — Mason Cooley

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 works I look for detail; 'Look at the eyelashes! — David Nicholls

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

The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly. — Robert Kirkman

Life is an experiment; so keep a realist and believe in miracles. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The visionary is the only realist. — Federico Fellini

You're not a realist unless you believe in miracles. — Anwar Sadat

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

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. — Robert Breault

From oriole to crow, note the decline
In music. Crow is realist. But, then,
Oriole, also, may be realist. — Wallace Stevens

It always felt like I had to be a realist. — Jack Tatum