Realistic Quotes

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

I just want to take a realistic look now, now that we have enough distance.

Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

Offering multiple games to reach such a broad audience is a great way to create awareness about horse racing. Obviously, my favorite is the jockey game. It's very realistic.

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Veep is the best and most realistic political TV show out there.

Since I started playing, really, since I was like three. I imagined myself famous but the vision was blurry, I guess. What you see on TV isn't a realistic picture.

Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic.

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.

I'm very practical and realistic.

One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

The Super Bowl is a realistic goal.

Any time I'm on-screen it is realistic because I don't pull my punches or anything like that.

I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the story.

Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good.

I had judgments about how to have a baby that are not realistic for every woman. So I surrendered, let it go, and was willing to accept the outcome. All I really wanted was a healthy, happy baby.

That's the kind of visual that you're trying to attract - something that in some way or another, connects you to what's happening there in a realistic way.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?

[Beaches] is a pretty picture and I just liked having somebody like Bette [Mudler] who can be flying in the big comedy scenes and have her do more like a realistic part.

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange. If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic, We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.

So, but I've always been very realistic about what it is when you're in the public eye.

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather than which way events should go. We have to be realistic.

A riveting and realistic portrayal of space travel gone wrong, and of a crew who must fight for their survival. Bones Burnt Black is exciting, and expertly told. A must-listen.

Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.

I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to.

It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true... it shows the essence of falling in love.

The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

Every artist obviously wants to sell a million records and do the MTV cribs thing, but I'm realistic.

There's no better feeling, even if I've won a race, than recording a personal best. It's setting yourself personal goals, but also realistic goals.

Le Mans' is the only racing movie that is totally realistic.

When you think about it there's never really been a realistic exposition of Hollywood, I mean - from the inside - showing Hollywood what it can do, what it has done, to people.