Realist Quotes

I have a lot of courage. I`m a realist.

Anyone who doesn`t believe in miracles isn`t a realist.

In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

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.

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn`t win the race. I am a realist.

(Some of his characters were underdeveloped, to the extent that their speeches could be (and sometimes were, in Wilson`s habitual frequent rewrites) interchanged. His dramatic structures and even his use of the musical powers of African American idioms were fairly old-fashioned compared with the exciting adventurousness of Suzan-Lori Parks. But even his traditionalism could be seen as a source of strength.) He was writing in the grand tradition of Eugene O`Neill and Arthur Miller, ... the politically engaged, direct, social-realist drama. He was reclaiming ground for the theater that most people thought had been abandoned.

I'm a realist, ... We don't want to drag down the company. Most people I talked to are OK with paying for some of their health care. It's not like we won't have good coverage.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.