Quotes about Realism

It's better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.

I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

My dear, you will be woefully disappointed if in my story you expect any thing like a novel. I once heard a general say, that nothing was less like a review than a battle; and I can tell you that nothing is more unlike a novel than real life. Of all lives, mine has been the least romantic.

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

It is more comfortable to think about all we might do instead of working to achieve what we can do.

When a friend told Francis Bacon that he would prefer not to have an eternal soul than to live in eternal torment, the painter replied with a grim realism that people are "so attracted to their egos that they'd probably rather have the torment than simple annihilation.

So, when you are sinned against or when the fallen world breaks your door down, don't lash out or run away. Stand in your weakness and confusion and say, "I am not alone. God is with me, and he is faithful, powerful, and willing." You can be realistic and hopeful at the very same time. Realistic expectations are not about hope without honesty, and they are not about honesty without hope. Realism is found at the intersection of unabashed honesty and uncompromising hope.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

What we do is not as important as what we are. Our functionalistic modern society tends to reduce our being to our function. What is the first question we ask about someone? "What does he do?" But love never asks that question first. The first question for love is always "Who are you?" rather than "What do you do?" Being is prior to doing, and love's realism refuses to reverse that real order.

You can't be all things to all people.