Unrealistic Quotes

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

- John F. Kennedy

Everybody makes mistakes, including role models, so you should just learn and grow from it. Even the best role models do screw up and learn from their mistakes, and I think it is just completely unrealistic to say that role models are perfect. Personally, I think perfection is boring, and secondly, I just think that it`s okay to make mistakes.

- Kate Bosworth

We cannot possibly take them all into this country (asylum seekers) - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

- Michael Howard

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I`ve ever seen. It`s totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.

- Karen McDougal

I can only work realistically while wanting to depict something unrealistic.

- Takashi Miike

A wholly unrealistic mandate to compete against itself with an aging fleet, aging workforce and and ailing infrastructure make a public accounting of the Coastal Ferry Act a necessity.

- Jackie Miller

I hate to admit that. I want to win every race, but I know that`s not possible. To be in the top 25 is realistic if we have any luck this year. But anything to be in the chase or something like that is very unrealistic.

- Roger Staubach

But I`m not saying - I shall keep it to myself. It would be nice to get all 48 points this weekend (Kenilworth and Coventry NW both away), but that might be unrealistic, though getting a full 24 last week was a nice feeling.

- Richard Cox

If you write a story about a soldier going AWOL and kidnapping a pregnant woman and finally shooting her in the head, it`s called searingly realistic, even though it`s never happened in the history of mankind. Whereas if you write about two people falling in love, which happens about a million times a day all over the world, for some reason or another, you`re accused of writing something unrealistic and sentimental.

- Richard Curtis

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

- Jim Harrison

It`s unrealistic to expect that you can bleach the trauma out of your mind. What treatment can help you do is learn how to cope with the experience, with the memories and to live in the present.

- Lisa Lewis

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

- Michael Novak

In all cases, failure rates for the recalled tires are fractions of a percent and thus determining a single cause for the failures is an unrealistic expectation,

- Sanjay

That`s completely unrealistic in our society; like there is so much pressure on teenage girls to look a certain way. If our campaign asked girls to stop wearing makeup, it would have a lot less support.

- Julia Smith

Being in a first call it`s unrealistic to have a lot of expectations, even though I`m a second career person, ... This call has set me up with expectations for my next call. I couldn`t have come to a better place for my first call. These two congregations are nurturing.

- Ann Summers

The most unrealistic thing I`ve ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don`t believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

- Len Wein

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It`s unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don`t have to try.

- Peggy Noonan

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

- Adrian Tigert

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

- Allan Ramsay

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

- Amanda Zimmerman

It is certainly not unrealistic to think we could have elections by mid-year 2004 and when a sovereign government is installed - my job here will be done.

- Amy Baker

If the constitution is adopted, it will be over the objections of the Sunni leadership. To expect that to be able to resolve the insurgency is simply unrealistic.

- Anjem Choudary

He indicated it was a very difficult decision and stressed the pragmatic nature of what the Israeli army is trying to do by consolidating its resources. I don`t think there was any unrealistic sense of optimism because the Palestinians have done nothing to combat terrorism.

- Antonio Gonzalez

These unrealistic representations may powerfully influence young children of both genders because their concepts of self are still developing ? and because young children are likely to own and view movies again and again.

- Barbara Fleming