#realist

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#abject #billions #countries #developing #hope

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. ↗

— H. C. Bailey

#miracles #must #order #realist #you

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

#beautiful #europe #honors #ill #inform

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#film #more #quality #realistic #tends

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#chicago #goes #person #protection #realistic

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded! ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#comic #comic book #dennis #done #ever

What would it be like to exist in a world without suffering? To have no needs, only desires? To be surrounded by so much beauty that you forget how ugly life is for everyone else? Who wouldn’t want that? Who wouldn’t be willing to fight for it? What the alumni did to get there – lie, cheat, steal, kill – I’m sure they’d all say it was worth it. And I bet they sleep soundly because they know that their nameless, faceless victims would have done the same thing. ↗

— Kirsten Miller

#realistic #beauty

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious. ↗

— Amy Lee

#hilarious #i #i love #know #love

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #lot #mainstream #only #population

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. ↗

— Arthur Symons

#before #faithfulness #him #mere #realist