A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
Arthur Symons
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
David Ben-Gurion
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'
Jessica Chastain
I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
Roger Moore
I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.
Todd Gitlin
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
James Earl Jones
I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.
Elisabeth Rohm
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 was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.
Jean Alesi
If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.
John Barth
In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
David Ben-Gurion
In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
H. C. Bailey
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
My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.
Katherine Heigl
People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.
Mike Ditka
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
Warren Rudman
Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.
Studs Terkel
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