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Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.
— Heywood Hale Broun
Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Realists value order above freedom: for them the latter becomes important only after the former has been established.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Whereas devotees of globalization stress what unifies humankind, traditional realists stress what divides us.
— Robert D. Kaplan
Now people can generally be classified into two groups: the mediocre realists and the mediocre dreamers.
— Haruki Murakami
I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.
— Tzipi Livni
The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.
— Edith Hamilton
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
— Paul Wellstone
There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.
— Paul Virilio
We're hard-core realists - we just pay lip service to death and decay and keep right on feeling immortal anyway.
— Peter Watts
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
— Hillary Clinton
I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way.
— Roberto Bolano
Men are not realists - only women are.
— Mae West
Bad things happen to realists.
— David Mitchell
A realist is a slave to reality.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
But what reality was ever made by realists? They
— Richard Flanagan
What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.
— Shannon L. Alder
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
— Roland Barthes
A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds ...
— Sylvia Plath
America: A place where Realists have the freedom to be Idealists.
— Dortha Jackson
It was a well-balanced family with its conservatives and its radicals, its dreamers and its realists.
— John Steinbeck
Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.
— Thorne Smith
Any power that doesn't give you benefit is not a power.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Cynic' is a word invented by optimists to criticize realists.
— Gregory Benford
Scientific realists claim that the aim of science is to give us theories
— Matthew Chrisman
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.
— Theodor Herzl
I have met otherwise educated folks who haven't heard that cooked bones can kill a dog, so perhaps the vets are just being realists.
— Carina MacDonald
Keep them hungry and they will certainly become realists.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Almost everyone is overconfidentexcept the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists. — Joseph T. Hallinan
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Opportunists are promoted, realists are co-opted, idealists are frightened and radicals are shot.
— Heather Marsh
I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
— Aretha Franklin